Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Μυκηναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μυκηναῖος Μυκηναῖη Μυκηναῖον

Structure: Μυκηναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Mycenaean

Examples

  • καὶ ὡσ οὐκέτι ἀνεχώρησεν Εὐρυσθεύσ, βουλομένων καὶ τῶν Μυκηναίων φόβῳ τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν, καὶ ἅμα δυνατὸν δοκοῦντα εἶναι καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ τεθεραπευκότα τῶν Μυκηναίων τε καὶ ὅσων Εὐρυσθεὺσ ἦρχεν τὴν βασιλείαν Ἀτρέα παραλαβεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 2:3)
  • ὃσ μὲν γῆσ ἀπηλλάχθη φυγὰσ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ παῖσ, χρυσὸν εἶφ’ ὃσ ἂν κτάνῃ, ἡμῖν δὲ δὴ δίδωσιν Ἠλέκτραν ἔχειν δάμαρτα, πατέρων μὲν Μυκηναίων ἄπο γεγῶσιν ‐ οὐ δὴ τοῦτό γ’ ἐξελέγχομαι· (Euripides, episode 2:4)
  • Μυκηναίων τίνι; (Euripides, episode40)
  • Ἥρα τε, βωμῶν ἣ Μυκηναίων κρατεῖσ ‐ νίκην δὸσ ἡμῖν, εἰ δίκαι’ αἰτούμεθα. (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:3)

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

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