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Πιερία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πιερία

Structure: Πιερι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. Pieria

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

  • τῶν ἐκ Πιερίασ , πῶσ οὐχί σοι μᾶλλον ἐξέσται μέγα φρονεῖν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῇ καὶ λαμπρόν, ἂν μὴ τῶν ῥόδων ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν καρπῶν μετέχῃσ, ὧν αἱ Μοῦσαι φέρουσι καὶ χαρίζονται τοῖσ παιδείαν καὶ φιλοσοφίαν θαυμάζουσιν; (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 48 17:1)
  • τῶν δὲ Νείλεω παίδων ὁ δυνατώτατοσ ὄνομα Φρύγιοσ τῆσ Πιερίασ ἐρασθεὶσ ἐνενόει τί ἂν αὐτῇ μάλιστα γένοιτο παρ’ αὐτοῦ κεχαρισμένον. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 1:1)
  • ἦν οὖν ἐν ἀμφοτέραισ ταῖσ πόλεσι δόξα καὶ τιμὴ τῆσ Πιερίασ, ὥστε καὶ τὰσ Μιλησίων εὔχεσθαι γυναῖκασ ἄχρι νῦν οὕτωσ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐρᾶν αὐτῶν, ὡσ Φρύγιοσ ἠράσθη Πιερίασ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 2:1)
  • τῶν δὲ Νείλεω παίδων ὁ δυνατώτατοσ ὄνομα Φρύγιοσ τῆσ Πιερίασ; (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 3:4)

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

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