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Εὐμενίδες

Third declension Noun; Feminine 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Εὐμενίδες

Structure: Εὐμενιδ (Stem) + ες (Ending)

Sense

  1. the gracious goddesses, the

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

  • καὶ ταύτῃ μὲν ἐκβιασθῆναι μέχρι τῶν Εὐμενίδων καὶ ὑποχωρῆσαι ταῖσ γυναιξίν, ἀπὸ δὲ Παλλαδίου καὶ Ἀρδηττοῦ καὶ Λυκείου προσβαλόντασ ὤσασθαι τὸ δεξιὸν αὐτῶν ἄχρι τοῦ στρατοπέδου καὶ πολλὰσ καταβαλεῖν. (Plutarch, chapter 27 4:1)
  • παραγενόμενοσ δὲ σὺν Ἀντιγόνῃ τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ εἰσ Κολωνόν, ἔνθα τὸ τῶν Εὐμενίδων ἐστὶ τέμενοσ, καθίζει ἱκέτησ, προσδεχθεὶσ ὑπὸ Θησέωσ, καὶ μετ’ οὐ πολὺν χρόνον ἀπέθανεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 5 9:2)
  • ὄμμα μελαμπέπλων ἔκφυγεν Εὐμενίδων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 745 2:1)
  • ἐν Κερυνείᾳ δὲ ἱερόν ἐστιν Εὐμενίδων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 11:1)
  • δοκεῖν δέ μοι θεῶν τῶν Εὐμενίδων ἐστὶν ἐπίκλησισ, καὶ Ὀρέστην ἐπὶ τῷ φόνῳ τῆσ μητρόσ φασιν αὐτόθι μανῆναι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. the gracious goddesses

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

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