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Θεσπιεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Θεσπιεύς Θεσπιεῶς

Structure: Θεσπιευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an inhabitant of Thespiae; a Thespian

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

  • περὶ δὲ αὐτὸν ἦσαν Υἅκινθόσ τε ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιοσ καὶ ὁ Θεσπιεὺσ Νάρκισσοσ καὶ Ὕλασ καὶ ἄλλοι καλοί. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 17:4)
  • Ἀμφίων δ’ ὁ Θεσπιεὺσ ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ἑλικῶνι Μουσείου ἄγεσθαί φησιν ἐν Ἑλικῶνι παίδων ὀρχήσεισ μετὰ σπουδῆσ, παρατιθέμενοσ ἀρχαῖον Ἐπίγραμμα τόδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 261)
  • γεγονὼσ γὰρ πολλοῖσ πρότερον ἔτεσιν ἢ Νάρκισσοσ ὁ Θεσπιεὺσ Κόρην τὴν Δήμητρόσ φησιν ἁρπασθῆναι παίζουσαν καὶ ἄνθη συλλέγουσαν, ἁρπασθῆναι δὲ οὐκ ἰοίσ ἀπατηθεῖσαν ἀλλὰ ναρκίσσοισ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 16:2)

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