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θεμελίους (themelious)

θεμελίους is an Ancient Greek form of θεμέλιος, meaning “foundation”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of θεμελιόω, “to lay the foundation of, found firmly”.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 15.3: ὁ δὲ τέταρτος οὗτος ὑπὸ Δομετιανοῦ καὶ συνετελέσθη καὶ καθιερώθη. λέγεται δὲ Ταρκύνιον εἰς τοὺς θεμελίους ἀναλῶσαι λίτρας ἀργυρίου τετρακισμυρίας· τούτου δὲ τοῦ καθʼ ἡμᾶς τὸν μέγιστον ἐν Ῥώμῃ τῶν ἰδιωτικῶν πλοῦτον ἐ …

All forms of θεμέλιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.