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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

  • ἱππείοισ δ’ ἐν δίφροισι ψαμάθων Αὐλίδοσ ἐπέβασαν νύμφαιον, οἴμοι, δύσνυμφον τῷ τᾶσ Νηρέωσ κούρασ, αἰαῖ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 3:3)
  • ὦ ποντίασ παῖ Λευκοθέασ, νεῶν φύλαξ, δέσποτα Παλαῖμον, ἵλεωσ ἡμῖν γενοῦ, εἴτ’ οὖν ἐπ’ ἀκταῖσ θάσσετον Διοσκόρω, ἢ Νηρέωσ ἀγάλμαθ’, ὃσ τὸν εὐγενῆ ἔτικτε πεντήκοντα Νηρῄδων χορόν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 1:7)
  • ὁ Πηλεὺσ δ’ ἔσχε Νηρέωσ κόρην. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 3:18)
  • παρὰ δὲ λευκοφαῆ ψάμαθον εἱλισσόμεναι κύκλια πεντήκοντα κόραι γάμουσ Νηρέωσ ἐχόρευσαν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, strophe 13)
  • τὰ θεῖα γὰρ τά τ’ ὄντα καὶ μέλλοντα πάντ’ ἠπίστατο, προγόνου λαβοῦσα Νηρέωσ τιμὰσ πάρα. (Euripides, Helen, episode 1:5)

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

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