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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

  • ὅσῳ δ’ ἂν εἴπῃσ δεινότερα βακχῶν πέρι, τοσῷδε μᾶλλον τὸν ὑποθέντα τὰσ τέχνασ γυναιξὶ τόνδε τῇ δίκῃ προσθήσομεν. (Euripides, episode, trochees 2:28)
  • ἡμεῖσ μὲν οὖν φεύγοντεσ ἐξηλύξαμεν βακχῶν σπαραγμόν, αἳ δὲ νεμομέναισ χλόην μόσχοισ ἐπῆλθον χειρὸσ ἀσιδήρου μέτα. (Euripides, episode, trochees 8:1)
  • οἳ δ’ ὀργῆσ ὕπο ἐσ ὅπλ’ ἐχώρουν φερόμενοι βακχῶν ὕπο· (Euripides, episode, trochees 8:12)
  • ἤδη τόδ’ ἐγγὺσ ὥστε πῦρ ὑφάπτεται ὕβρισμα βακχῶν, ψόγοσ ἐσ Ἕλληνασ μέγασ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 10:3)
  • καὶ τόδ’ αἰσχρόν, ἀσπίδασ θύρσοισι βακχῶν ἐκτρέπειν χαλκηλάτουσ ἀπόρῳ γε τῷδε συμπεπλέγμεθα ξένῳ, ὃσ οὔτε πάσχων οὔτε δρῶν σιγήσεται. (Euripides, episode, trochees 10:16)

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

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