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Πλάταια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πλάταια

Structure: Πλαται (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. Plataea or Plataeae

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Πλάταια Πλαταίᾱ Πλάταιαι
Genitive Πλαταίᾱς Πλαταίαιν Πλαταιῶν
Dative Πλαταίᾱͅ Πλαταίαιν Πλαταίαις
Accusative Πλαταίᾱν Πλαταίᾱ Πλαταίᾱς
Vocative Πλαταίᾱ Πλαταίᾱ Πλάταιαι

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

  • "καὶ ἀεὶ ὁ Ἄθωσ πλείσθω καὶ ὁ Ἑλλήσποντοσ πεζευέσθω καὶ ὁ ἥλιοσ ὑπὸ τῶν Μηδικῶν βελῶν σκεπέσθω καὶ Ξέρξησ φευγέτω καὶ Λεωνίδασ θαυμαζέσθω καὶ τὰ Ὀθρυάδου γράμματα ἀναγιγνωσκέσθω, καὶ ἡ Σαλαμὶσ καὶ τὸ Ἀρτεμίσιον καὶ αἱ Πλαταιαὶ πολλὰ ταῦτα καὶ πυκνά. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:33)
  • στρατηγίαι δὲ αἱ μὲν Κάτωνοσ οὐδὲν ὡσ μεγάλοισ πράγμασι μέγα προσέθηκαν, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ Ἀριστείδου τὰ κάλλιστα καὶ λαμπρότατα καὶ πρῶτα τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἔργων ἐστίν, ὁ Μαραθών, ἡ Σαλαμίσ, αἱ Πλαταιαί. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 5 1:1)
  • εἰ μὴ Θεσπιαὶ καὶ Πλαταιαὶ καὶ τὸ Θηβαίουσ αὐτίκα δὴ μάλα δώσειν δίκην ἀφείλετο τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀλλ’ οἱ λέγοντεσ τὰ περὶ Θεσπιέων καὶ Πλαταιέων, ὁ δὲ ἀφελὼν τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν εἰπόντων αὐτὰ λέγει ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν, εἰ μὴ Θεσπιαὶ καὶ Πλαταιαί. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 26:2)
  • ταῦτα τοίνυν καὶ πόλλ’ ἕτερ’ ἐνῆν παραχρῆμα τότ’ εὐθὺσ ἐξελέγχειν καὶ διδάσκειν ὑμᾶσ καὶ μὴ προέσθαι τὰ πράγματ’ ἐᾶν, εἰ μὴ Θεσπιαὶ καὶ Πλαταιαὶ καὶ τὸ Θηβαίουσ αὐτίκα δὴ μάλα δώσειν δίκην ἀφείλετο τὴν ἀλήθειαν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 56:1)

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

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