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Περσεφόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Περσεφόνη

Structure: Περσεφον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Persephone, Proserpine, her temple

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

  • ὦ τέκνον, ὦ φῶσ μητρὶ κρεῖσσον ἡλίου ‐ συγγνώσεται γὰρ ὁ θεόσ ‐ ἐν χεροῖν σ’ ἔχω, ἀέλπτον εὑρ́ημ’, ὃν κατὰ γᾶσ ἐνέρων χθόνιον μετὰ Περσεφόνασ τ’ ἐδόκουν ναίειν. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 6:2)
  • ἤδη γὰρ λειμῶνασ ἐπὶ Κλυμένου πεπότησαι καὶ δροσερὰ χρυσέασ ἄνθεα Περσεφόνασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1892)

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

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