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Ἀθῆναι

First declension Noun; Feminine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀθῆναι Ἀθηνῶν

Structure: Ἀθην (Stem) + αι (Ending)

Sense

  1. the city of Athens

Declension

First declension
Plural
Nominative Ἀθῆναι
Genitive Ἀθηνῶν
Dative Ἀθήναις
Accusative Ἀθήνᾱς
Vocative Ἀθῆναι

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

  • ταῖσ δὲ Ἀθήναισ Ζάγατισ ποταμὸσ ἑπτὰ μάλιστα σταδίουσ ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν διέχων πρόσκειται. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 7 5:3)
  • σοὶ δὲ πῶσ τὰ ἐν Ἀθήναισ ἔχει; (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 10:8)
  • Πελοπίαν παρεὶσ χθόνα πῶσ ταῖσ Ἀθήναισ τόνδε προστάσσεισ πόνον; (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:18)
  • μελισσοτρόφου Σαλαμῖνοσ ὦ βασιλεῦ Τελαμών, νάσου περικύμονοσ οἰκήσασ ἕδραν τᾶσ ἐπικεκλιμένασ ὄχθοισ ἱεροῖσ, ἵν’ ἐλαίασ πρῶτον ἔδειξε κλάδον γλαυκᾶσ Ἀθάνα, οὐράνιον στέφανον λιπαραῖσί <τε> κόσμον Ἀθήναισ, ἔβασ ἔβασ τῷ τοξοφόρῳ συναρι‐ στεύων ἅμ’ Ἀλκμήνασ γόνῳ Ἴλιον Ἴλιον ἐκπέρσων πόλιν ἁμετέραν τὸ πάροιθεν ὅτ’ ἔβασ ἀφ’ Ἑλλάδοσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἔστι γυνή, τέξει δὲ λέονθ’ ἱεραῖσ ἐν Ἀθήναισ, ὃσ περὶ τοῦ δήμου πολλοῖσ κώνωψι μαχεῖται ὥστε περὶ σκύμνοισι βεβηκώσ· (Aristotle, Episode 1:18)

Synonyms

  1. the city of Athens

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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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