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Κυθέρεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυθέρεια

Structure: Κυθερει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from Ku/qhra

Sense

  1. Cythereia

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

  • τὴν δ’ Ἀφροδίτην ἀφρογενέα τε θεὰν καὶ ἐυστέφανον Κυθέρειαν κικλῄσκουσι θεοί τε καὶ ἀνέρεσ, οὕνεκ’ ἐν ἀφρῷ θρέφθη· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 22:10)
  • ἀτὰρ Κυθέρειαν, ὅτι προσέκυρσε Κυθήροισ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 22:11)
  • κυπρογενῆ Κυθέρειαν ἀείσομαι, ἥτε βροτοῖσι μείλιχα δῶρα δίδωσιν, ἐφ’ ἱμερτῷ δὲ προσώπῳ αἰεὶ μειδιάει καὶ ἐφ’ ἱμερτὸν θέει ἄνθοσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:1)
  • ἀλλά, φίλοι, Κυθέρειαν ἐπικλείοντεσ ἀμύνειν, ἤδη νῦν Ἄργοιο παραιφασίῃσι πίθεσθε. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 10:11)
  • τὰν δὲ καλὰν Κυθέρειαν ἐν ὤρεσι μᾶλα νομεύων οὐχ οὑτῶσ ὥδωνισ ἐπὶ πλέον ἄγαγε λύσσασ, ὥστ’ οὐδὲ φθίμενόν νιν ἄτερ μαζοῖο τίθητι; (Theocritus, Idylls, 34)

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

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