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Μινύης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μινύης Μινύου

Structure: Μινυ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one of the Minyae; a minyan

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

  • μάχασ δὲ Μινυῶν ἃσ ἔτλην ἀπέπτυσαν; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 3:33)
  • Κλύμενον τὸν Μινυῶν βασιλέα λίθῳ βαλὼν Μενοικέωσ ἡνίοχοσ, ὄνομα Περιήρησ, ἐν Ὀγχηστῷ Ποσειδῶνοσ τεμένει τιτρώσκει· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 4 11:3)
  • Ἄσκρη μὲν πατρὶσ πολυλήιοσ, ἀλλὰ θανόντοσ ὀστέα πληξίππων γῆ Μινυῶν κατέχει Ἡσιόδου, τοῦ πλεῖστον ἐν ἀνθρώποισ κλέοσ ἐστὶν ἀνδρῶν κρινομένων ἐν βασάνῳ σοφίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 541)
  • ὑποτεταγμένων γὰρ τῶν Θηβαίων Ἐργίνῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Μινυῶν, καὶ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ὡρισμένουσ φόρουσ τελούντων, οὐ καταπλαγεὶσ τὴν τῶν δεδουλωμένων ὑπεροχὴν ἐτόλμησε πρᾶξιν ἐπιτελέσαι περιβόητον· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 10 3:1)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ παραγενομένουσ τῶν Μινυῶν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀπαίτησιν τῶν δασμῶν καὶ μεθ’ ὕβρεωσ εἰσπραττομένουσ ἀκρωτηριάσασ ἐξέβαλεν ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 10 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. one of the Minyae

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