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Ἅρπυιαι

First declension Noun; Feminine 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἅρπυιαι

Structure: Ἁρπυι (Stem) + αι (Ending)

Etym.: a(rpa/zw

Sense

  1. the snatchers, whirlwinds or hurricanes, Harpies

Declension

First 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

  • ἣ δ’ ὠκεῖαν τέκεν Ἶριν ἠυκόμουσ θ’ Ἁρπυίασ Αἐλλώ τ’ Ὠκυπέτην τε, αἵ ῥ’ ἀνέμων πνοιῇσι καὶ οἰωνοῖσ ἅμ’ ἕπονται ὠκείῃσ πτερύγεσσι· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 28:4)
  • ἐν καιρῷ δεομένῳ βραδυτέρου δείπνου διάγραμμα παρακείμενον ἤ τι βιβλίδιον ἢ λύριον οὐ προϊένται τῇ γαστρὶ λεηλατούμενον, ἀλλ’ ἀποστρέφων συνεχῶσ καὶ μεταφέρων ἐπὶ ταῦτα τὴν διάνοιαν ἀπὸ τῆσ τραπέζησ ὥσπερ Ἁρπυίασ τὰσ ὀρέξεισ διασοβήσει ταῖσ Μούσαισ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 20 1:1)
  • οὓσ ὕστερον μὲν ὥσπερ Ἁρπυίασ τὴν τροφὴν ἁρπάζοντασ αὐτῶν ὁ Λούκουλλοσ ἐξήλασε, τότε δὲ μετριωτέρουσ ἐπειρᾶτο νουθετῶν ποιεῖν, καὶ τὰσ ἀποστάσεισ κατέπαυε τῶν δήμων, οὐδενὸσ, ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν, ἡσυχάζοντοσ. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 7 6:1)
  • ἔπεμψαν δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τὰσ ἁρπυίασ οἱ θεοί· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 21:4)
  • ἡ δὲ γεννᾷ θυγατέρασ μὲν Κλεοπάτραν καὶ Χιόνην, υἱοὺσ δὲ Ζήτην καὶ Κάλαϊν πτερωτούσ, οἳ πλέοντεσ σὺν Ιἄσονι καὶ τὰσ ἁρπυίασ διώκοντεσ ἀπέθανον, ὡσ δὲ Ἀκουσίλαοσ λέγει, περὶ Τῆνον ὑφ’ Ἡρακλέουσ ἀπώλοντο. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 15 2:2)

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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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