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Ἕμπουσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἕμπουσα

Structure: Ἑμπους (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. Empusa, a hobgoblin

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

  • εἰκάζειν δὲ χρὴ καὶ τὴν Ἔμπουσαν τὴν ἐσ μυρίασ μορφὰσ μεταβαλλομένην τοιαύτην τινὰ ἄνθρωπον ὑπὸ τοῦ μύθου παραδεδόσθαι. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 19:5)
  • αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶν οὐ φοβερά τισ οὐδὲ σκυθρωπὴ καθάπερ οὗτοι πλάττουσι, διαβάλλοντεσ τὴν πρόνοιαν, ὥσπερ παισὶν Ἔμπουσαν ἢ Ποινὴν ἀλιτηριώδη καὶ τραγικὴν ἐπιτετραμμένην. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 212)
  • χθὲσ μὲν οὖν καὶ πρώην ἅμ’ Ἀθηναῖοσ καὶ ῥήτωρ γέγονεν, καὶ δύο συλλαβὰσ προσθεὶσ τὸν μὲν πατέρ’ ἀντὶ Τρόμητοσ ἐποίησεν Ἀτρόμητον, τὴν δὲ μητέρα σεμνῶσ πάνυ Γλαυκοθέαν, ἣν Ἔμπουσαν ἅπαντεσ ἴσασι καλουμένην, ἐκ τοῦ πάντα ποιεῖν καὶ πάσχειν δηλονότι ταύτησ τῆσ ἐπωνυμίασ τυχοῦσαν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 190:4)

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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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