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Μέμνων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μέμνων Μέμνονος

Structure: Μεμνων (Stem)

Etym.: me/nw

Sense

  1. the steadfast or resolute, Memnon

Declension

Third 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

  • Τιθωνῷ δ’ Ηὢσ τέκε Μέμνονα χαλκοκορυστήν, Αἰθιόπων βασιλῆα, καὶ Ἠμαθίωνα ἄνακτα. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 107:1)
  • "ὁπότε γὰρ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ διῆγον ἔτι νέοσ ὤν, ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἐπὶ παιδείασ προφάσει ἀποσταλείσ, ἐπεθύμησα εἰσ Κοπτὸν ἀναπλεύσασ ἐκεῖθεν ἐπὶ τὸν Μέμνονα ἐλθὼν ἀκοῦσαι τὸ θαυμαστὸν ἐκεῖνο ἠχοῦντα πρὸσ ἀνίσχοντα τὸν ἥλιον. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 26:11)
  • ἤκουε γὰρ ταύτασ ὑψηλὰσ οὔσασ μὴ παρέχεσθαι σκιάν, τὸν δὲ Μέμνονα βοᾶν πρὸσ ἀνατέλλοντα τὸν ἥλιον. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 26:4)
  • λέγεται δέ τισ μῦθοσ ὑπὸ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ὅτι οἱ Αἰθίοπεσ στελλόμενοι εἰσ Τροίαν ὑπὸ τοῦ Τιθωνοῦ, ἐπεὶ ἤκουσαν τὸν Μέμνονα τετελευτηκέναι, ἐν τούτῳ τῷ τόπῳ τοὺσ στεφάνουσ ἀνέβαλον ἐπὶ τὰσ ἀκάνθασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 25 2:4)
  • ἔγεντο καὶ πρότερον Ἀντίλοχοσ βιατὰσ νόημα τοῦτο φέρων, ὃσ ὑπερέφθιτο πατρόσ, ἐναρίμβροτον ἀναμείναισ στράταρχον Αἰθιόπων Μέμνονα. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 6 4:1)

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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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