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Πυθιάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πυθιάς Πυθιάδος

Structure: Πυθιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pecul. fem. of Pu/qios

Sense

  1. the Pythian priestess
  2. the celebration of the Pythian games
  3. a sacred mission, to Pytho or Delphi

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Πυθιάς Πυθιάδε Πυθιάδες
Genitive Πυθιάδος Πυθιάδοιν Πυθιάδων
Dative Πυθιάδι Πυθιάδοιν Πυθιάσιν*
Accusative Πυθιάδα Πυθιάδε Πυθιάδας
Vocative Πυθιά Πυθιάδε Πυθιάδες

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

  • γείτονα, Πυθιάδοσ δ’ ἐν δρόμῳ κάρυξ ἀνέειπέ νιν ἀγγέλλων Ιἕρωνοσ ὑπὲρ καλλινίκου ἁρ́μασι. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 11:1)
  • μάκαρ δὲ καὶ νῦν, κλεεννᾶσ ὅτι εὖχοσ ἤδη παρὰ Πυθιάδοσ ἵπποισ ἑλὼν δέδεξαι τόνδε κῶμον ἀνέρων, Ἀπολλώνιον ἄθυρμα. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 5 4:1)
  • τοῦ γὰρ πᾶσαν τῶν ἄλλων πάντων ἔργων βίου ἀσχολίαν παρασκευάζοντοσ, τοῦ Πυθιάδοσ τε καὶ Ὀλυμπιάδοσ νίκησ ὀρεγομένου, διπλασίασ τε καὶ ἔτι πολλῷ πλέονοσ ἀσχολίασ ἐστὶν γέμων ὁ περὶ τὴν τοῦ σώματοσ πάντωσ καὶ ψυχῆσ εἰσ ἀρετῆσ ἐπιμέλειαν βίοσ εἰρημένοσ ὀρθότατα. (Plato, Laws, book 7 120:2)
  • ὅπου δ’ ἂν ποιῶνται τὴν ταφήν, ἐνταῦθα καὶ τὰ Πυθιάδοσ ὀστᾶ ἀνελόντασ θεῖναι, ὥσπερ αὐτὴ προσέταξεν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. a'. ARISTOTELHS 16:2)
  • ἐξεῖναι δὲ βουλομένῳ φιλοσοφεῖν καὶ Ἀριστοτέλει τῷ Μητροδώρου καὶ Πυθιάδοσ υἱῷ καὶ μετέχειν τούτων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. b'. QEOFRASTOS 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. the Pythian priestess

  2. the celebration of the Pythian games

Related

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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