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Μοῦσα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μοῦσα Μοῦσης

Structure: Μους (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: Ma/w

Sense

  1. the Muse, the Muses
  2. music, song, eloquence, arts, accomplishments

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

  • πόθεν, εἰ μή ποτε παρὰ τῶν Μουσῶν κλῶνα δάφνησ καθάπερ ὁ ποιμὴν ἐκεῖνοσ λαβών; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 3:3)
  • σοὶ καὶ μεμνῆσθαι Μουσῶν ἀνόσιον. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 3:5)
  • τὴν μέν γε κιθάραν αὐτήν, ὑπερφυέσ τι χρῆμα εἰσ κάλλοσ καὶ πολυτέλειαν, χρυσοῦ μὲν τοῦ ἀκηράτου πᾶσαν, σφραγῖσι δὲ καὶ λίθοισ ποικίλοισ κατακεκοσμημένην, Μουσῶν μεταξὺ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ καὶ Ὀρφέωσ ἐντετορνευμένων; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 8:5)
  • Ἀλλὰ ποιητὴν μὲν ἄριστον εἶναί σε, ὦ Ἡσίοδε, καὶ τοῦτο παρὰ Μουσῶν λαβεῖν μετὰ τῆσ δάφνησ αὐτόσ τε δεικνύεισ ἐν οἷσ ποιεῖσ ‐ ἔνθεα γὰρ καὶ σεμνὰ πάντα ‐ καὶ ἡμεῖσ πιστεύομεν οὕτωσ ἔχειν· (Lucian, 1:1)
  • θάτερον δὲ καὶ ὃ χρησιμώτερον ἦν τῷ βίῳ παρὰ πολὺ καὶ θεῶν δωρεαῖσ μᾶλλον ἐοικόσ, λέγω δὲ τὴν τῶν μελλόντων προαγόρευσιν, οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐξαπέφηνασ, ἀλλὰ τὸ μέροσ τοῦτο πᾶν λήθῃ παραδέδωκασ οὐδαμοῦ τῆσ ποιήσεωσ ἢ τὸν Κάλχαντα ἢ τὸν Τήλεμον ἢ τὸν Πολύειδον ἢ καὶ Φινέα μιμησάμενοσ, οἳ μηδὲ παρὰ Μουσῶν τούτου τυχόντεσ ὅμωσ προεθέσπιζον καὶ οὐκ ὤκνουν χρᾶν τοῖσ δεομένοισ. (Lucian, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Muse

Related

Similar forms

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

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