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Ποτνιάς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ποτνιάς Ποτνιάδος

Structure: Ποτνιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Potnian, Boeotian, raging, furious

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

  • Ποτνιάδεσ δ’ ἐπ’ ἀσπίδι ἐπίσημα πῶλοι δρομάδεσ ἐσκίρτων φόβῳ, εὖ πωσ στρόφιγξιν ἔνδοθεν κυκλούμεναι πόρπαχ’ ὑπ’ αὐτόν, ὥστε μαίνεσθαι δοκεῖν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 5:2)
  • αἰαῖ, δρομάδεσ ὦ πτεροφόροι ποτνιάδεσ θεαί, ἀβάκχευτον αἳ θίασον ἐλάχετ’ ἐν δάκρυσι καὶ γόοισ, μελάγχρωτεσ εὐμενίδεσ, αἵτε τὸν ταναὸν αἰθέρ’ ἀμπάλλεσθ’, αἵματοσ τινύμεναι δίκαν, τινύμεναι φόνον, καθικετεύομαι καθικετεύομαι, τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονοσ γόνον ἐάσατ’ ἐκλαθέσθαι λύσσασ μανιάδοσ φοιταλέου. (Euripides, choral, strophe 11)

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

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