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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)
  • καὶ φρυγίλῳ Σαβαζίῳ καὶ στρούθῳ μεγάλῃ μητρὶ θεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων ‐ δέσποινα Κυβέλη, στροῦθε, μῆτερ Κλεοκρίτου. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:9)
  • 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)
  • ἡ κροτάλοισ ὀρχηστρὶσ Ἀρίστιον, ἡ περὶ πεύκασ τῇ Κυβέλῃ πλοκάμουσ ῥῖψαι ἐπισταμένη, ἡ λωτῷ κερόεντι φορουμένη, ἡ τρὶσ ἐφεξῆσ εἰδυῖ’ ἀκρήτου χειλοποτεῖν κύλικασ, ἐνθάδ’ ὑπὸ πτελέαισ ἀναπαύεται, οὐκέτ’ ἔρωτι, οὐκέτ’ παννυχίδων τερπομένη καμάτοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2231)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄροσ ὑπερκείμενον τῆσ πόλεωσ τὸ Δίνδυμον, ἀφ’ οὗ ἡ Δινδυμηνή, καθάπερ ἀπὸ τῶν Κυβέλων ἡ Κυβέλη. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 5 3:6)

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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