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Μυτιλήνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μυτιλήνη

Structure: Μυτιλην (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Mytilene

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

  • ἀποθανόντοσ δὲ Πλάτωνοσ ἐπὶ Θεοφίλου ἄρχοντοσ ἀπῆρε πρὸσ Ἑρμίαν τὸν Ἀταρνέωσ τύραννον καὶ τριετῆ χρόνον παρ’ αὐτῷ διατρίψασ ἐπ’ Εὐβούλου ἄρχοντοσ εἰσ Μυτιλήνην ἐχωρίσθη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 5 1:2)
  • "Πακτύησ δ’ ὡσ ἐπύθετο προσελαύνοντα τὸν στρατὸν τὸν Περσικὸν ᾤχετο φεύγων ἄρτι μὲν εἰσ Μυτιλήνην, ἔπειτα δ’ εἰσ Χίον· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 20 3:1)
  • καὶ περὶ Μυτιλήνην δὲ ἐξ ἐπικλήρων στάσεωσ γενομένησ πολλῶν ἐγένετο ἀρχὴ κακῶν καὶ τοῦ πολέμου τοῦ πρὸσ Ἀθηναίουσ, ἐν ᾧ Πάχησ ἔλαβε τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 64:2)
  • Κόνων δ’ ἔφευγε ταῖσ ναυσὶν εὖ πλεούσαισ διὰ τὸ ἐκ πολλῶν πληρωμάτων εἰσ ὀλίγασ ἐκλελέχθαι τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ ἐρέτασ, καὶ καταφεύγει εἰσ Μυτιλήνην τῆσ Λέσβου καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ τῶν δέκα στρατηγῶν Λέων καὶ Ἐρασινίδησ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 6 21:1)
  • οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι κατέπλευσαν εἰσ τὴν Μυτιλήνην, ἐκεῖθεν δ’ ἐπανήχθησαν εἰσ τὴν Χίον, καὶ οὐδὲν διαπραξάμενοι ἀπέπλευσαν ἐπὶ Σάμου. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 6 43:3)

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

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