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Κορύβας

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κορύβας Κορύβαντος

Structure: Κορυβαντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. any individual among the Korybantes

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

  • τούτων δὲ Ῥαδάμανθυσ μὲν τοῖσ Κρησὶν ἐνομοθέτησε, Μίνωσ δὲ διαδεξάμενοσ τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ γήμασ Ἰτώνην τὴν Λυκτίου Λύκαστον ἐγέννησεν, ὃσ διαδεξάμενοσ τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ γήμασ Ἴδην τὴν Κορύβαντοσ ἐγέννησε Μίνωα τὸν δεύτερον, ὅν τινεσ Διὸσ υἱὸν ἀναγράφουσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 60 3:3)
  • Κορύβαντόσ τε ἐπίκλησισ ὁ Σατράπησ ἐστί. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 11:3)

Synonyms

  1. any individual among the Korybantes

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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