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Προμηθεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Προμηθεύς Προμηθέως

Structure: Προμηθευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Prometheus, forethought, afterthought
  2. forethought

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

  • καὶ τοῦ Καυκάσου κορυφή τισ ἐδείκνυτο ‐ Στρόβιλοσ τῇ κορυφῇ ὄνομα ‐ , ἵναπερ ὁ Προμηθεὺσ κρεμασθῆναι ὑπὸ Ἡφαίστου κατὰ πρόσταξιν Διὸσ μυθεύεται. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 11 8:2)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἥφαιστοσ χωλόσ ἐστι, βαναυσόσ τισ καὶ πυρίτησ τὴν τέχνην ὁ Προμηθεὺσ δὲ καὶ ἀνεσκολοπίσθη ποτέ. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 8:4)
  • Κλέων Προμηθεύσ ἐστι μετὰ τὰ πράγματα. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 5:3)
  • καὶ εἴ γε σοι τοῦτο βούλεται εἶναι ὁ Προμηθεύσ, πάνυ εὐστόχωσ ἀποτετόξευται καὶ ἐσ τὴν Ἀττικὴν δριμύτητα τῶν σκωμμάτων, ἐπεὶ καὶ εὔθρυπτα ἡμῖν τὰ ἔργα, ὥσπερ ἐκείνοισ τὰ χυτρίδια, καὶ μικρόν τισ λίθον ἐμβαλὼν συντρίψειεν ἂν πάντα. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 5:5)
  • ἀλλὰ Ζεὺσ ἔκρυψε χολωσάμενοσ φρεσὶν ᾗσιν, ὅττι μιν ἐξαπάτησε Προμηθεὺσ ἀγκυλομήτησ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 7:4)

Synonyms

  1. forethought

Related

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

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