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Νηρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νηρεύς Νηρέως

Structure: Νηρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Nereus, (the sea)

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

  • Νηρέα δ’ ἀψευδέα καὶ ἀληθέα γείνατο Πόντοσ, πρεσβύτατον παίδων· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 27:1)
  • μὰ τὸν δι’ ὑγρῶν κυμάτων τεθραμμένον Νηρέα, φυτουργὸν Θέτιδοσ ἥ μ’ ἐγείνατο, οὐχ ἅψεται σῆσ θυγατρὸσ Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ, οὐδ’ εἰσ ἄκραν χεῖρ’, ὥστε προσβαλεῖν πέπλοισ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 2:2)
  • πυθομένου δὲ τοῦ Διονυσίου τίνοσ ἕνεκεν τοῦτο ποιεῖ, εἶπεν ὁ Φιλόξενοσ ὅτι γράφων τὴν Γαλάτειαν βούλοιτὸ τινα παρ’ ἐκείνησ τῶν κατὰ Νηρέα πυθέσθαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 11 1:2)
  • αὗται μηνύουσιν αὐτῷ Νηρέα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 11:11)
  • ἀσπάσασθε Φιλόλογον καὶ Ιοὐλίαν, Νηρέα καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ Ὀλυμπᾶν, καὶ τοὺσ σὺν αὐτοῖσ πάντασ ἁγίουσ. (PROS RWMAIOUS, chapter 11 162:1)

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

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