Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Κυβέλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυβέλη

Structure: Κυβελ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Cybele

Declension

First 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

  • ἄμεινον δὲ αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν τὸν χρησμὸν Ἐσ δίνασ Ἴστροιο διιπετέοσ ποταμοῖο ἐσβαλέειν κέλομαι δοιοὺσ Κυβέλησ θεράποντασ, θῆρασ ὀριτρεφέασ, καὶ ὅσα τρέφει Ἰνδικὸσ ἀήρ ἄνθεα καὶ βοτάνασ εὐώδεασ αὐτίκα δ’ ἔσται νίκη καὶ μέγα κῦδοσ ἅμ’ εἰρήνῃ ἐρατεινῇ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 48:4)
  • θῆρα, τὸν ὀρχησμῶν αὐτομαθῆ Κυβέλησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 218 2:1)
  • Σάρδισ Πεσσινόεντοσ ἀπὸ Φρυγὸσ ἤθελ’ ἱκέσθαι ἔκφρων, μαινομένην δοὺσ ἀνέμοισι τρίχα, ἁγνὸσ Ἄτυσ, Κυβέλησ θαλαμηπόλοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2201)
  • τὸν δ’ Ἀπόλλω φασὶν εἰσ τὸ ἄντρον τοῦ Διονύσου τήν τε κιθάραν καὶ τοὺσ αὐλοὺσ ἀναθέντα, καὶ τῆσ Κυβέλησ ἐρασθέντα, συμπλανηθῆναι ταύτῃ μέχρι τῶν Ὑπερβορέων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 59 6:2)
  • τῆσ δὲ Κυβέλησ τὸ παλαιὸν βωμοὺσ ἰδρυσαμένουσ θυσίασ ἐπιτελεἴν κατ’ ἔτοσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 59 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. Cybele

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

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