Ἐλευσίς
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
English (LSJ)
ῖνος, ἡ, Eleusis, an old city of Attica, sacred to Demeter and Cora, first in h.Cer.97; late
A Ἐλευσίν Str.9.1.12 codd. (but Ἐλευσίς 9.1.20), Corn.ND28. II Advs. Ἐλευσῖνι at Eleusis, IG12.76.10, al., And.1.111, Lys.6.4, etc.; later ἐν Ἐ. IG22.1028.11, al.: Ἐλευσῖνάδε to Eleusis, Lys.12.52, X.HG2.4.24:Ἐλευσῑνόθεν from Eleusis, And.1.111, Lys.6.45.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Ἐλευσίς: -ῖνος, ἡ, ἀρχαία πόλις τῆς Ἀττικῆς, ἱερὰ τῇ Δήμητρι καὶ τῇ Κόρῃ (Περσεφόνῃ), μνημονευομένη πρῶτον ἐν τῷ Ὁμ. Ὕμνῳ εἰς Δήμητρα: ὁ τύπος Ἐλευσὶν ἀπαντᾷ μόνον ἐν μεταγενεστέροις χειρογράφοις, ὡς ἐν Στράβ. 395, ἀλλ’ Ἐλευσὶς ἐν 397 (δίς)· οὕτω καὶ ὁ τύπος Σαλαμὶν εἶναι μεταγενέστερος ἀντὶ τοῦ δοκίμου Σαλαμίς. ΙΙ. Ἐπιρρήματα: Ἐλευσῖνι, ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι, Ἀνδοκ. 15. 6, Λυσ. 103. 24, Ξεν. κλ. (παρὰ μεταγενεστέροις καὶ μὴ δοκίμοις συγγραφ., ἐν Ἐλ., ἴδε Κοβήτου V. LL. σ. 201): Ἐλευσίνᾰδε εἰς Ἐλευσῖνα, Λυσ. 125. 6, Ξεν. Ἑλλ. 2. 4, 24· Ἐλευσινόθεν, ἐξ Ἐλευσῖνος, Ἀνδοκ. 15. 4, Λυσ. 107. 12.
