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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

  • ὀνομάζειν γὰρ αἰδοῦμαι θεὰσ εὐμενίδασ, αἳ τόνδ’ ἐξαμιλλῶνται φόβῳ. (Euripides, episode 3:2)
  • αἰαῖ, δρομάδεσ ὦ πτεροφόροι ποτνιάδεσ θεαί, ἀβάκχευτον αἳ θίασον ἐλάχετ’ ἐν δάκρυσι καὶ γόοισ, μελάγχρωτεσ εὐμενίδεσ, αἵτε τὸν ταναὸν αἰθέρ’ ἀμπάλλεσθ’, αἵματοσ τινύμεναι δίκαν, τινύμεναι φόνον, καθικετεύομαι καθικετεύομαι, τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονοσ γόνον ἐάσατ’ ἐκλαθέσθαι λύσσασ μανιάδοσ φοιταλέου. (Euripides, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκείνη μὲν ἐχώρει τὸν Ἐφιάλτην καὶ τὸν Ὦτον, αὕτη δὲ τοῦ Ὠρίωνοσ , ἦν οἰκητήριον ὁ δ’ Ἀλκμέων ἰλὺν νεοπαγῆ τοῦ Ἀχελῴου προσχωννύντοσ ἐπῴκησεν ὑποφεύγων τὰσ Εὐμενίδασ, ὡσ οἱ ποιηταὶ λέγουσι· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 94)
  • 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)
  • τὰσ πάνθ’ ὁρώσασ Εὐμενίδασ ὅ γ’ ἐνθάδ’ ἂν εἴποι λεώσ νιν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:8)

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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