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Δίκτυννα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Δίκτυννα

Structure: Δικτυνν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: di/ktuon

Sense

  1. goddess of the chase

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

  • ἅμα δὲ Δίκτυννα παῖσ Ἄρτεμισ καλὰ τὰσ κυνίσκασ ἔχουσ’ ἐλθέτω διὰ δόμων πανταχῇ, σὺ δ’ ὦ Διὸσ διπύρουσ ἀνέχουσα λαμπάδασ ὀξυτάτασ χεροῖν Ἑκάτα παράφηνον ἐσ Γλύκησ, ὅπωσ ἂν εἰσελθοῦσα φωράσω. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric15)
  • ἡ δέ μοι Δίκτυννα συγγνώμην ἔχοι τοῦ δικτύου. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, antiproepirrheme2)
  • ἐπίκλησισ δέ οἱ παρά τε Αἰγινήταισ ἐστὶν Ἀφαία καὶ Δίκτυννα ἐν Κρήτῃ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 5:1)
  • οὐκ εὖ δὲ οὐδὲ τὸν Καλλίμαχον λέγειν φασίν, ὡσ ἡ Βριτόμαρτισ φεύγουσα τὴν Μίνω βίαν ἀπὸ τῆσ Δίκτησ ἅλοιτο εἰσ ἁλιέων δίκτυα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο αὐτὴ μὲν Δίκτυννα ὑπὸ τῶν Κυδωνιατῶν προσαγορευθείη, Δίκτη δὲ τὸ ὄροσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 17:8)

Synonyms

  1. goddess of the chase

Related

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

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