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Λέρνα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λέρνα

Structure: Λερν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. Lerna

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Λέρνα Λέρνᾱ Λέρναι
Genitive Λέρνης Λέρναιν Λερνῶν
Dative Λέρνῃ Λέρναιν Λέρναις
Accusative Λέρναν Λέρνᾱ Λέρνᾱς
Vocative Λέρνα Λέρνᾱ Λέρναι

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

  • μολὼν ἐσ Ἄργοσ ἀνακάλει Λέρνησ ὕδωρ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, trochees35)
  • "καὶ τῶν μὲν ἐγκωμιαζόντων τὸ ἀπὸ τῆσ Λέρνησ, ἄλλων δὲ τὸ ἀπὸ τῆσ Πειρήνησ, ὁ Καρνεῖοσ κατὰ Φιλόξενον εἶπε ’ τὸ κατὰ χειρῶν καὶ τῆσ τραπέζησ παρατεθείσησ ἐδειπνοῦμεν καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐξηντλοῦμεν φακῆν, ἡ δ’ ἐπεισέρρει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 459)
  • σὺ δ’, ὦ παῖ, μὴ ’πολακτίσῃσ λέχοσ τὸ Ζηνόσ, ἀλλ’ ἔξελθε πρὸσ Λέρνησ βαθὺν λειμῶνα, ποίμνασ βουστάσεισ τε πρὸσ πατρόσ, ὡσ ἂν τὸ Δῖον ὄμμα λωφήσῃ πόθου. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:3)
  • εὐθὺσ δὲ μορφὴ καὶ φρένεσ διάστροφοι ἦσαν, κεραστὶσ δ’, ὡσ ὁρᾶτ’, ὀξυστόμῳ μύωπι χρισθεῖσ’ ἐμμανεῖ σκιρτήματι ᾖσσον πρὸσ εὔποτόν τε Κερχνείασ ῥέοσ Λέρνησ τε κρήνην · (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:3)
  • αὕτη δὲ ἐν τῷ τῆσ Λέρνησ ἕλει ἐκτραφεῖσα ἐξέβαινεν εἰσ τὸ πεδίον καὶ τά τε βοσκήματα καὶ τὴν χώραν διέφθειρεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 2:2)

Related

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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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