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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Πυθία Πυθίᾱ Πυθίαι
Genitive Πυθίᾱς Πυθίαιν Πυθιῶν
Dative Πυθίᾱͅ Πυθίαιν Πυθίαις
Accusative Πυθίᾱν Πυθίᾱ Πυθίᾱς
Vocative Πυθίᾱ Πυθίᾱ Πυθίαι

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

  • Πυθίαν δ’ ἦλθεσ πέτραν πρίν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees 1:12)
  • καὶ Μνησίθεοσ δ’ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ Διόνυσον ἰατρόν φησι τὴν Πυθίαν χρῆσαι τιμᾶν Ἀθηναίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 41 1:3)
  • κἀν ἄλλοισ δ’ ὁ Πλάτων φησὶ Χαιρεφῶντα ἐρωτῆσαι τὴν Πυθίαν εἴ τισ εἰή Σωκράτουσ σοφώτεροσ καὶ τὴν ἀνελεῖν μηδένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 601)
  • "εἰρημένοισ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ ἓν βραχύ τοῖσ περὶ Νίκανδρον ἀείσω ξυνετοῖσι τῇ γὰρ ἕκτῃ τοῦ νέου μηνὸσ ὅταν κατάγῃ εἷσ τὴν Πυθίαν εἰσ τὸ πρυτανεῖον, ὁ πρῶτοσ ὑμῖν γίγνεται τῶν τριῶν κλήρων εἰσ, τὰ πέντε, πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἐκείνησ τὰ τρία τοῦ δὲ τὰ δύο βάλλοντεσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 161)
  • "καὶ τὴν Πυθίαν εἰπεῖν κύνασ τρέφειν καὶ κυνηγετεῖν ἁλῶναί τε ἐν ἐνιαυτῷ πλείουσ τῶν ἑξακισχιλίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 632)

Synonyms

  1. the Pythia

Similar forms

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

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