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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

  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ Ἑκάβη τὸ μὴ ἁλῶναι τὴν πόλιν τότε ἐπρίατο παρὰ τῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ βοῶν δώδεκα καὶ πέπλου. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 2:3)
  • Ἀθηνᾶσ ναὸσ πεποίηται, ἡ θεὸσ λίθου λευκοῦ, τὸ σχῆμα οὐ πολεμιστήριον, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂ν ἂν γένοιτο εἰρήνην ἀγούσησ θεοῦ πολεμικῆσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 26:2)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ Πολυζήλου ἄρχοντοσ τελευτήσαντοσ τοῦ πατρὸσ ὀκτωκαιδέκατον ἔτοσ ἔχων εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἦλθεν, καὶ συσταθεὶσ Πλάτωνι χρόνον εἰκοσαετῆ διέτριψε σὺν αὐτῷ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 5 1:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν Φιλίππου τελευτὴν ἐπ’ Εὐαινέτου ἄρχοντοσ ἀφικόμενοσ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἐσχόλαζεν ἐν Λυκείῳ χρόνον ἐτῶν δώδεκα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 5 1:4)
  • πάλιν δὲ τῶν Ὀλυνθίων πρέσβεισ ἀποστειλάντων εἰσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ καὶ δεομένων μὴ περιιδεῖν αὐτοὺσ καταπολεμηθέντασ, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ ταῖσ ὑπαρχούσαισ δυνάμεσι πέμψαι βοήθειαν μὴ ξενικὴν ἀλλ’ αὐτῶν Ἀθηναίων, ἔπεμψεν αὐτοῖσ ὁ δῆμοσ τριήρεισ μὲν ἑτέρασ ἑπτακαίδεκα καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ὁπλίτασ δισχιλίουσ καὶ ἱππεῖσ τριακοσίουσ ἐν ναυσὶν ἱππηγοῖσ, στρατηγὸν δὲ Χάρητα τοῦ στόλου παντόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 9 1:4)

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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