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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

  • Τίμων ἦν ἀίδρυτόσ τισ ἀβάτοισιν ἐν σκώλοισι τὸ πρόσωπον περιειργμένοσ, Ἐρινύων ἀπορρώξ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 22)
  • ὦ Φοῖβε, ποῖ μ’ αὖ τήνδ’ ἐσ ἄρκυν ἤγαγεσ χρήσασ, ἐπειδὴ πατρὸσ αἷμ’ ἐτεισάμην, μητέρα κατακτάσ, διαδοχαῖσ δ’ Ἐρινύων ἠλαυνόμεσθα φυγάδεσ ἔξεδροι χθονὸσ δρόμουσ τε πολλοὺσ ἐξέπλησα καμπίμουσ, ἐλθὼν δέ σ’ ἠρώτησα πῶσ τροχηλάτου μανίασ ἂν ἔλθοιμ’ ἐσ τέλοσ πόνων τ’ ἐμῶν, οὓσ ἐξεμόχθουν περιπολῶν καθ’ Ἑλλάδα ‐ σὺ δ’ εἶπασ ἐλθεῖν Ταυρικῆσ μ’ ὁρ́ουσ χθονόσ, ἔνθ’ Ἄρτεμίσ σοι σύγγονοσ βωμοὺσ ἔχοι, λαβεῖν τ’ ἄγαλμα θεᾶσ, ὅ φασιν ἐνθάδε ἐσ τούσδε ναοὺσ οὐρανοῦ πεσεῖν ἄπο· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 4:11)
  • οὔκ, ἀλλ’ Ἐρινύων δεῖμά μ’ ἐκβάλλει χθονόσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 1:32)
  • ἐπεὶ τὰ μητρὸσ ταῦθ’ ἃ σιγῶμεν κακὰ ἐσ χεῖρασ ἦλθε, μεταδρομαῖσ Ἐρινύων ἠλαυνόμεσθα φυγάδεσ, ἔνθεν μοι πόδα ἐσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ δῆτ’ ἔπεμψε Λοξίασ, δίκην παρασχεῖν ταῖσ ἀνωνύμοισ θεαῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 2:3)
  • ὡσ δ’ εἰσ Ἄρειον ὄχθον ἧκον, ἐσ δίκην ἔστην, ἐγὼ μὲν θάτερον λαβὼν βάθρον, τὸ δ’ ἄλλο πρέσβειρ’ ἥπερ ἦν Ἐρινύων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:1)

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

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