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Μελπομένη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μελπομένη

Structure: Μελπομεν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from me/lpw

Sense

  1. Melpomene, the songstress

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

  • Μελπομένη δ’ εἰκοστὸν ἀπαίνυτο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 3 1:4)
  • Κλειὼ καλλιχόρου κιθάρησ μελιηδέα μολπὴν Εὐτέρπη τραγικοῖο χοροῦ πολυηχέα φωνὴν Μελπομένη θνητοῖσι μελίφρονα βάρβιτον εὑρ͂ε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5042)
  • "οἵδε καὶ ὀφθαλμῶν ἡδονήν, εἶδοσ εἴτε τῷ λόγῳ μᾶλλον εἴτε τῷ πάθει προσῆκον εἴτε κοινὸν ἀμφοῖν ἐστιν, αἱ λοιπαὶ δύο, Μελπομένη καὶ Τερψιχόρη, παραλαβοῦσαι κοσμοῦσιν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 18:16)
  • Ησίοδοσ δὲ καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν ἀποφαίνεται λέγων Κλειώ τ’ Εὐτέρπη τε Θάλειά τε Μελπομένη τε Τερψιχόρη τ’ Ἐρατώ τε Πολύμνιά τ’ Οὐρανίη τε Καλλιόπη θ’, ἥ σφεων προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 7 2:4)

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

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