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Ἀμφιάραος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀμφιάραος Ἀμφιάραου

Structure: Ἀμφιαρα (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: A)mfia/rews , a choriambus in Trag.

Sense

  1. Amphiaraus

Declension

Second declension
Singular
Nominative Ἀμφιάραος
Genitive Ἀμφιαράου
Dative Ἀμφιαράῳ
Accusative Ἀμφιάραον
Vocative Ἀμφιάραε

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅθεν, ὡσ ἐοίκε, τῶν εἰσ Ἀμφιάραον ὑπ’ Αἰσχύλου πεποιημένων ἰαμβείων ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ λεγομένων· (Plutarch, , chapter 3 4:1)
  • "καὶ σὺ φέρειν τιμῆεν ἐμοὶ γέρασ, ᾧ ποτε μήτηρ Ἀμφιάραον ἔκρυψ’ ὑπὸ γῆν αὐτοῖσι σὺν ἵπποισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1931)
  • Ἀμφιάραοσ μὲν οὖν ἀπεῖπεν Ἐριφύλῃ παρὰ Πολυνείκουσ δῶρα λαμβάνειν, Πολυνείκησ δὲ δοὺσ αὐτῇ τὸν ὁρ́μον ἠξίου τὸν Ἀμφιάραον πεῖσαι στρατεύειν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 6 2:4)
  • Αἰσχύλου δὲ ποιήσαντοσ εἰσ Ἀμφιάραον οὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστοσ ἀλλ’ εἶναι θέλει, βαθεῖαν ἄλοκα διὰ φρενὸσ; (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 51)
  • Αἰσχύλου δὲ ποιήσαντοσ εἰσ Ἀμφιάραον, οὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστοσ ἀλλ’ εἶναι θέλει, βαθεῖαν ἄλοκα διὰ φρενὸσ καρπούμενοσ, ἐξ ἧσ τὰ κεδνὰ βλαστάνει βουλεύματα· (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 51)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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