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Πυθόμαντις

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πυθόμαντις Πυθόμαντεως

Structure: Πυθομαντι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Pythian prophet, at Pytho

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

  • φεῦ φεῦ, τί δῆτ’ ἄν, ὦ γύναι, σκοποῖτό τι τὴν Πυθόμαντιν ἑστίαν ἢ τοὺσ ἄνω κλάζοντασ ὄρνεισ, ὧν ὑφηγητῶν ἐγὼ κτενεῖν ἔμελλον πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:12)
  • καὶ φίλτρα τόλμησ τῆσδε πλειστηρίζομαι τὸν πυθόμαντιν Λοξίαν, χρήσαντ’ ἐμοὶ πράξαντι μὲν ταῦτ’ ἐκτὸσ αἰτίασ κακῆσ εἶναι, παρέντα δ’ ‐ οὐκ ἐρῶ τὴν ζημίαν· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. the Pythian prophet

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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