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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

  • ἔστι δὲ κώμιον τῆσ τῶν Θεσπιέων χώρασ. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 32)
  • περὶ δὲ αὐτὸν ἦσαν Υἅκινθόσ τε ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιοσ καὶ ὁ Θεσπιεὺσ Νάρκισσοσ καὶ Ὕλασ καὶ ἄλλοι καλοί. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 17:4)
  • Εὐθύνου δὲ Θεσπιέωσ, ὡσ Καλλισθένησ φησίν, ὡσ δὲ Ξενοφῶν, Κρητόσ τινοσ, ἐξαγγείλαντοσ τῷ Ἀγησιλάῳ, ταχὺ προπέμψασ ἱππέα τοῖσ ἐν τῇ πόλει φράσοντα, μετ’ οὐ πολὺ καὶ αὐτὸσ παρῆλθεν εἰσ τὴν Σπάρτην. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 34 4:1)
  • ἐν Ἑλικῶνι παρὰ ταῖσ Μούσαισ, ὦ Φλαουιανέ, τὰ Ἐρωτικὰ Θεσπιέων ἀγόντων· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 1 3:2)
  • τῶν δὲ Θεσπιέων καὶ τῶν ξένων οἱ μὲν ἐγέλων, οἱ δ’ ἠγανάκτουν καὶ τοὺσ γυμνασιάρχουσ παρώξυνον ἄρχουσι γὰρ ἰσχυρῶσ τῶν ἐφήβων καὶ προσέχουσι τὸν νοῦν σφόδρα τοῖσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν πραττομένοισ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 10 6:2)
  • 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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