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Πολύμνια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πολύμνια

Structure: Πολυμνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. Polymnia or Polyhymnia, she of the many hymns

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

  • καὶ δὴ γεγράφθω πάντα συλλήβδην τὰ ἐκ τοῦ Ἑλικῶνοσ ἀγαθὰ ἔχουσα, οὐχ ὥσπερ ἡ Κλειὼ καὶ ἡ Πολύμνια καὶ ἡ Καλλιόπη καὶ αἱ ἄλλαι ἕν τι ἑκάστη ἐπισταμένη, ἀλλὰ τὰ πασῶν καὶ προσέτι τὰ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 16:2)
  • Τερψιχόρη δὲ τέτρατον ἑβδομάτην δ’ Ἐρατὼ μετεκίαθε μοίρην ἡ δὲ τριηκόντων με Πολύμνια νόσφισε μήλων, Οὐρανίη δ’ ἑκατόν τε καὶ εἴκοσι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 3 1:5)
  • σεῖο μὲν εἰκὼν ἥδε Πολύμνια, καὶ σὺ δέ, Μούσησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2191)
  • τέρψιασ ὀρχηθμοῖο Πολύμνια πάνσοφοσ εὑρ͂εν [ἁρμονίην πάσῃσι Πολύμνια δῶκεν ἀοιδαῖσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 504 1:3)
  • ταῦτ’ ἄρα Μοῦσαι ἀείδον, Ὀλύμπια δώματ’ ἔχουσαι, ἐννέα θυγατέρεσ μεγάλου Διὸσ ἐκγεγαυῖαι, Κλειώ τ’ Εὐτέρπη τε Θάλειά τε Μελπομέενη τε Τερψιχόρη τ’ Ἐρατώ τε Πολύμνιά τ’ Οὐρανίη τε Καλλιόπη θ’· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 10:1)

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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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