Μῆδος
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
Μῆδος
Μήδου
Structure:
Μηδ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- an inhabitant of Media; a Mede or Median
Declension
Second 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.
- ἔφριξαν Πέρσαι τὴν τόλμαν αὐτῆσ, καὶ Μῆδοι τὸ θράσοσ αὐτῆσ ἐρράχθησαν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 16:10)
- ἔκτοσθεν δέ οἱ χρυσόσ τε ἄλλοσ περικέαται καὶ λίθοι κάρτα πολυτελέεσ, τῶν οἱ μὲν λευκοί, οἱ δὲ ὑδατώδεεσ, πολλοὶ δὲ οἰνώδεεσ, πολλοὶ δὲ πυρώδεεσ, ἔτι δὲ ὄνυχεσ οἱ Σαρδῷοι πολλοὶ καὶ ὑάκινθοι καὶ σμάραγδοι, τὰ φέρουσιν Αἰγύπτιοι καὶ Ἰνδοὶ καὶ Αἰθίοπεσ καὶ Μῆδοι καὶ Ἀρμένιοι καὶ Βαβυλώνιοι. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 32:4)
- πάσχουσι δ̓ αὐτὸ ἀτεχνῶσ Μῆδοι πάντεσ, ἐπὰν ἀποβῶσι τῶν ἵππων, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀκανθῶν βαίνοντεσ ἀκροποδητὶ μόλισ βαδίζουσιν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 9:2)
- "οἱ Μῆδοι λακωνίζουσι ; (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 22 2:2)
- "οἱ τύραννοι καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖσ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ὄντεσ κύριοι καὶ πάντων εἰληφότεσ πεῖραν τὴν ἡδονὴν προκρίνουσιν, μεγαλοψυχοτέρασ ποιούσησ τῆσ ἡδονῆσ τὰσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων φύσεισ, ἅπαντεσ γοῦν οἱ τὴν ἡδονὴν τιμῶντεσ καὶ τρυφᾶν προῃρημένοι μεγαλόψυχοι καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖσ εἰσιν, ὡσ Πέρσαι καὶ Μῆδοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 52)
