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Μίθρης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μίθρης Μίθρες

Structure: Μιθρη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Mithras

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

  • καίτοι ὅτι Μητρόδωροσ εἰσ Πειραιᾶ κατέβη σταδίουσ τεσσαράκοντα Μιθρῇ τινι Σύρῳ τῶν βασιλικῶν συνειλημμένῳ βοηθήσων, πρὸσ πάντασ ἐγράφετο καὶ πάσασ, πάσαισ ἐπιστολαῖσ μεγαληγοροῦντοσ Ἐπικούρου καὶ σεμνύνοντοσ ἐκείνην τὴν ὁδόν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 333)
  • παρὰ δὲ Πέρσαισ τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐφίεται μεθύσκεσθαι μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ, ἐν ᾗ θύουσι τῷ Μίθρῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 45 2:1)
  • γράφει δὲ οὕτωσ περὶ τούτου Δοῦρισ ἐν τῇ ἑβδόμῃ τῶν ἱστοριῶν ’ ἐν μόνῃ τῶν ἑορτῶν τῶν ἀγομένων ὑπὸ Περσῶν τῷ Μίθρῃ βασιλεὺσ μεθύσκεται καὶ τὸ Περσικὸν ὀρχεῖται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 45 2:2)
  • μικρῷ γὰρ ἔμπροσθεν ἠκούομεν, ἔφη, τούτου λέγοντοσ, οἱάσ φωνὰσ ἀφῆκεν Ἐπίκουροσ, οἱᾶ δὲ γράμματα τοῖσ φίλοισ ἔπεμψεν, ὑμνῶν καὶ μεγαλύνων Μητρόδωρον, ὡσ ’εὖ τε καὶ νεανικῶσ ἐξ ἄστεωσ ἅλαδε κατέβη Μιθρῇ τῷ Σύρῳ βοηθήσων’ καὶ ταῦτα, πράξαντοσ οὐδὲν τότε τοῦ Μητροδώρου. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 15 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. Mithras

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

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