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Πυθόμαντις?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: Pythomantis

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

    • Πύθια (the Pythian games, Pytho, Pythian Apollo)

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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