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Βάκχη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βάκχη

Structure: Βακχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Bacchante, frantic handmaid

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

  • ἡδομέ‐ να δ’ ἄρα, πῶλοσ ὅπωσ ἅμα ματέρι φορβάδι, κῶλον ἄγει ταχύπουν σκιρτήμασι βάκχα. (Euripides, choral, epode6)
  • οὐ προκαλυπτομένα βοτρυχώδεοσ ἁβρὰ παρηίδοσ οὐδ’ ὑπὸ παρθενί‐ ασ τὸν ὑπὸ βλεφάροισ φοίνικ’, ἐρύθημα προσώπου, αἰδομένα φέρομαι βάκχα νεκύ‐ ων, κράδεμνα δικοῦσα κόμασ ἀπ’ ἐ‐ μᾶσ, στολίδοσ κροκόεσσαν ἀνεῖσα τρυφάν, ἁγεμόνευμα νεκροῖσι πολύστονον. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric1)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐπηλάλαξεν, ἔνθεοσ δ’ Ἄρει βακχᾷ πρὸσ ἀλκὴν Θυιὰσ ὣσ φόβον βλέπων. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 2 1:6)
  • βάκχα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 602)
  • ἁ βάκχα Παρία μέν, ἐνεψύχωσε δ’ ὁ γλύπτασ τὸν λίθον ἀνθρῴσκει δ’ ὡσ βρομιαζομένα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7741)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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