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Πυθία

First declension Noun; Feminine 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πυθία

Structure: Πυθι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Pythia, priestess of Pythian Apollo

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

  • χρόνῳ δ’ ἔβα Πυθίαισ ἀποστολαῖσιν Οἰδίπουσ ὁ τλάμων Θηβαίαν τάνδε γᾶν τότ’ ἀσμένοισ, πάλιν δ’ ἄχη· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • εἰήν ὅθι δαί̈ων ἀνδρῶν τάχ’ ἐπιστροφαὶ τὸν χαλκοβόαν Ἄρη μείξουσιν, ἢ πρὸσ Πυθίαισ ἢ λαμπάσιν ἀκταῖσ, οὗ πότνιαι σεμνὰ τιθηνοῦνται τέλη θνατοῖσιν, ὧν καὶ χρυσέα κλῂσ ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ βέβακε προσπόλων Εὐμολπιδᾶν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. the Pythia

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

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