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Κυβήβη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυβήβη

Structure: Κυβηβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = Kube/lh, q. v.

Sense

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

  • Ἀνὰ Δίνδυμον Κυβήβησ Φρύγεσ ἔνθεον ὀλολυγὴν ἁπαλῷ τελοῦσιν Ἄττῃ, καὶ πρὸσ μέλοσ κεραύλου Φρυγίου κατ̓ ὄρεα Τμώλου κῶμον βοῶσι Λυδοί· (Lucian, 6)
  • εἰπὲ γάρ μοι, πρὸσ πανδήμου καὶ Γενετυλλίδων καὶ Κυβήβησ πῇ σοι μεμπτὸν καὶ γέλωτοσ ἄξιον τοὔνομα εἶναι ἔδοξεν ἡ ἀποφρὰσ ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 8:1)
  • καὶ Σάρδιεσ μὲν ἐνεπρήσθησαν, ἐν δὲ αὐτῇσι καὶ ἱρὸν ἐπιχωρίησ θεοῦ Κυβήβησ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 102 2:1)
  • οἱ δὲ Βερέκυντεσ Φρυγῶν τι φῦλον καὶ ἁπλῶσ οἱ Φρύγεσ καὶ τῶν Τρώων οἱ περὶ τὴν Ἴδην κατοικοῦντεσ Ῥέαν μὲν καὶ αὐτοὶ τιμῶσι καὶ ὀργιάζουσι ταύτῃ, μητέρα καλοῦντεσ θεῶν καὶ Ἄγδιστιν καὶ Φρυγίαν θεὸν μεγάλην, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν τόπων Ἰδαίαν καὶ Δινδυμήνην καὶ Σιπυληνὴν καὶ Πεσσινουντίδα καὶ Κυβέλην καὶ Κυβήβην. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 21:1)
  • τῷ δ’ αὐλῷ καὶ κτύπῳ κροτάλων τε καὶ κυμβάλων καὶ τυμπάνων καὶ ταῖσ ἐπιβοήσεσι καὶ εὐασμοῖσ καὶ ποδοκρουστίαισ οἰκεῖα ἐξεύροντο καί τινα τῶν ὀνομάτων, ἃ τοὺσ προπόλουσ καὶ χορευτὰσ καὶ θεραπευτὰσ τῶν ἱερῶν ἐκάλουν, Καβείρουσ καὶ Κορύβαντασ καὶ Πᾶνασ καὶ Σατύρουσ καὶ Τιτύρουσ καὶ τὸν θεὸν Βάκχον καὶ τὴν Ῥέαν Κυβέλην καὶ Κυβήβην καὶ Δινδυμήνην κατὰ τοὺσ τόπουσ αὐτούσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 25:1)

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

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