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Ἐρινύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐρινύς

Structure: Ἐρινυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: E)ri/nu_s not E)rinnu/s

Sense

  1. the Erinys or Fury, Three, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto
  2. curses from one's mother, blood-guiltiness of, distraction, curses to men

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐν πέμπτῃ γάρ φασιν Ἐρινύασ ἀμφιπολεύειν Ὅρκον γεινόμενον, τὸν Ἔρισ τέκε πῆμ’ ἐπιόρκοισ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 98:2)
  • ὁ δὲ μάγοσ ἐν τοσούτῳ δᾷδα καιομένην ἔχων οὐκέτ’ ἠρεμαίᾳ τῇ φωνῇ, παμμέγεθεσ δέ, ὡσ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν, ἀνακραγὼν δαίμονάσ τε ὁμοῦ πάντασ ἐπεβοᾶτο καὶ Ποινὰσ καὶ Ἐρινύασ καὶ νυχίαν Ἑκάτην καὶ ἐπαινὴν Περσεφόνειαν, παραμιγνὺσ ἅμα βαρβαρικά τινα καὶ ἄσημα ὀνόματα καὶ πολυσύλλαβα. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 9:7)
  • μηδὲν δὲ πλέον ἀνύων ἔθει διὰ μέσησ τῆσ πόλεωσ, ἀνατείνων πρὸσ ἣλιον τὼ χεῖρε, αὖθισ δὲ τὴν γῆν τύπτων ἀνεκαλεῖτο τὰσ Ἐρινύασ καὶ τέλοσ αὑτὸν τοῦ ζῆν μετέστησεν. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 3 17:1)
  • "Δαιμονίη, τί νύ τοι ῥέξω ἄκοσ, οἷ’ ἀγορεύεισ, ἀράσ τε στυγερὰσ καὶ Ἐρινύασ; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 12:28)
  • ἡ δ’ εἴσω πελάνουσ μείλικτρά τε νηφαλίῃσιν καῖεν ἐπ’ εὐχωλῇσι παρέστιοσ, ὄφρα χόλοιο σμερδαλέασ παύσειεν Ἐρινύασ, ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὸσ εὐμειδήσ τε πέλοιτο καὶ ἤπιοσ ἀμφοτέροισιν, εἴτ’ οὖν ὀθνείῳ μεμιασμένοι αἵματι χεῖρασ, εἴτε καὶ ἐμφύλῳ προσκηδέεσ ἀντιόωσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 12:14)

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

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