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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

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

  • ὁ μάντισ Ἀμφιάραοσ, ὦ δέσποιν’, ὅδε· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 1:16)
  • ἐσ δὲ Προιτίδασ πύλασ ἐχώρει σφάγι’ ἔχων ἐφ’ ἁρ́ματι ὁ μάντισ Ἀμφιάραοσ, οὐ σημεῖ’ ἔχων ὑβρισμέν’, ἀλλὰ σωφρόνωσ ἄσημ’ ὅπλα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 2:2)
  • θρῴσκων μὲν γὰρ Ἀμφιάραοσ, ἄκοντι δὲ νίκασεν Μελέαγροσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 72 5:2)
  • οὐ φαύλωσ γὰρ ἂν δόξειεν ὁ παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ Ἀμφιάραοσ παραμυθεῖσθαι τὴν Ἀρχεμόρου μητέρα δυσχεραίνουσαν ὅτι νήπιοσ ὢν ὁ παῖσ καὶ ἄγαν ἀώροσ ἐτελεύτησε. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 16 4:2)
  • Μελέαγροσ Οἰνέωσ, Δρύασ Ἄρεοσ, ἐκ Καλυδῶνοσ οὗτοι, Ἴδασ καὶ Λυγκεὺσ Ἀφαρέωσ ἐκ Μεσσήνησ, Κάστωρ καὶ Πολυδεύκησ Διὸσ καὶ Λήδασ ἐκ Λακεδαίμονοσ, Θησεὺσ Αἰγέωσ ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν, Ἄδμητοσ Φέρητοσ ἐκ Φερῶν, Ἀγκαῖοσ <καὶ> Κηφεὺσ Λυκούργου ἐξ Ἀρκαδίασ, Ιἄσων Αἴσονοσ ἐξ Ιὠλκοῦ, Ἰφικλῆσ Ἀμφιτρύωνοσ ἐκ Θηβῶν, Πειρίθουσ Ἰξίονοσ ἐκ Λαρίσησ, Πηλεὺσ Αἰακοῦ ἐκ Φθίασ, Τελαμὼν Αἰακοῦ ἐκ Σαλαμῖνοσ, Εὐρυτίων Ἄκτοροσ ἐκ Φθίασ, Ἀταλάντη Σχοινέωσ ἐξ Ἀρκαδίασ, Ἀμφιάραοσ Οἰκλέουσ ἐξ Ἄργουσ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 8 2:9)

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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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