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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

  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν εἰσ Χαλκίδα ἀναχώρησιν οἵδε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 11 3:5)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν ὁρμηθέντεσ τὸν Πρύτανιν παρημείψαμεν, ἵναπερ καὶ τὰ Ἀγχιάλου βασίλειά ἐστιν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 7 5:4)
  • καὶ οὗτοσ ἀπέχει τεσσαράκοντα σταδίουσ ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 7 5:5)
  • ὡσ δ̓ ἂν τάχιστα πᾶσαν ἴδοισ τὴν πόλιν τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, μᾶλλον δὲ τὴν Ελλάδα ὅλην καὶ τὰ Ἑλλήνων καλά, ἐγὼ ὑποθήσομαί σοι. (Lucian, Scytha 11:5)
  • Δήμητερ ἑστιοῦχ’ Ἐλευσῖνοσ χθονὸσ τῆσδ’, οἵ τε ναοὺσ ἔχετε πρόσπολοι θεᾶσ, εὐδαιμονεῖν με Θησέα τε παῖδ’ ἐμὸν πόλιν τ’ Ἀθηνῶν τήν τε Πιτθέωσ χθόνα, ἐν ᾗ με θρέψασ ὀλβίοισ ἐν δώμασιν Αἴθραν πατὴρ δίδωσι τῷ Πανδίονοσ Αἰγεῖ δάμαρτα, Λοξίου μαντεύμασιν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:1)

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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