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Ὀρφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρφεύς Ὀρφέως

Structure: Ὀρφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Orpheus, of Orpheus, Orphic

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

  • χαῖρε, ὦ ἄριστε καὶ μουσικώτατε Ὀρφεῦ· (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 29:3)
  • οὐκέτι θελγομένασ, Ὀρφεῦ, δρύασ, οὐκέτι πέτρασ ἄξεισ, οὐ θηρῶν αὐτονόμουσ ἀγέλασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 81)

Related

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

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