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Μοῖσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μοῖσα

Structure: Μοις (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: aeolic for Mou=sa

Sense

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

  • μελίφθογγοι δ’ ἐπιτρέψοντι Μοῖσαι. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 6:1)
  • ἐγγυάσομαι ὔμμιν, ὦ Μοῖσαι, φυγόξενον στρατὸν μηδ’ ἀπείρατον καλῶν, ἀκρόσοφον δὲ καὶ αἰχματὰν ἀφίξεσθαι. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 11 4:2)
  • κωμάσομεν παρ’ Ἀπόλλωνοσ Σικυώνοθε, Μοῖσαι, τὰν νεοκτίσταν ἐσ Αἴτναν, ἔνθ’ ἀναπεπταμέναι ξείνων νενίκανται θύραι, ὄλβιον ἐσ Χρομίου δῶμ’. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 9 1:1)
  • αἴκα ταὶ Μοῖσαι τὰν οἰίδα δῶρον ἄγωνται, ἄρνα τὺ σακίταν λαψῇ γέρασ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 7)
  • Ἄρχετε βουκολικᾶσ Μοῖσαι φίλαι ἄρχετ’ ἀοιδᾶσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 39)

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

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