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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

  • πρὸσ δ’ οὖν τοὐπιὸν ὁρ́α ὅπωσ μὴ λάθῃσ ἡμῖν ἐξ ἀνδρὸσ τοῦ πάλαι Λυδή τισ ἢ Βάκχη γενόμενοσ, ὅπερ οὐ σὸν ἂν ἔγκλημα εἰή μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμῶν, εἰ μή σε κατὰ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα τοῦ λωτοῦ ἀποσπάσαντεσ ἐπὶ τὰσ συνήθεισ διατριβὰσ ἐπανάξομεν πρὶν λάθῃσ τελέωσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ Σειρήνων κατεσχημένοσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 3:3)
  • πότερα δὲ θύρσον δεξιᾷ λαβὼν χερὶ ἢ τῇδε, βάκχῃ μᾶλλον εἰκασθήσομαι; (Euripides, episode22)
  • οὐχ ὡσ δρομαία πῶλοσ ἢ Βάκχη θεοῦ τάφῳ ξυνάψω κῶλον; (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue10)
  • ἡ βάκχη Κρονίδην Σάτυρον θέτο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7751)
  • εἰσ Ἀκμονίαν αἰνόμορον βάκχη με κατέκτανε θηροτρόφον πρίν, οὐ κρίσει ἐν σταδίοισ, γυμνασίαισ δὲ κλυταῖσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3321)

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

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