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Θηβα̈ίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Θηβα̈ίς Θηβα̈ίδος

Structure: Θηβα̈ιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Thebais

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

  • ἔτι γὰρ ἂν ἦσαν αἱ Θῆβαι πόλισ· (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 26:2)
  • ὁ Διόνυσοσ ὁ Διόνυσοσ, οὐ Θῆβαι κράτοσ ἔχουσ’ ἐμόν. (Euripides, episode, lyric1)
  • ὤμοι μοι, Θῆβαι· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric4)
  • τὰ δὲ πρὸ τῆσ στρατείασ, ἔτι τοῖσ Φιλιππικοῖσ πολέμοισ ἐπέσπαιρεν ἡ Ἑλλάσ, ἀπεσείοντο δ’ αἱ Θῆβαι τῶν ὅπλων τὴν Χαιρωνικὴν κόνιν ἐκ τοῦ πτώματοσ ἀνιστάμεναι, καὶ συνῆπτον αἱ Ἀθῆναι τὰσ χεῖρασ ὀρέγουσαι· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 3 1:1)
  • οὐκ ἀγνοῶ δ’ ὅτι περὶ τὸν τῶν μυστηρίων καιρὸν αὖθισ Θῆβαί τε κατεσκάφησαν ὑπὸ Ἀλεξάνδρου, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα φρουρὰν Ἀθηναῖοι Μακεδόνων ἐδέξαντο περὶ αὐτὴν τήν εἰκάδα τοῦ Βοηδρομιῶνοσ, ᾗ τὸν μυστικὸν Ιἄκχον ἐξάγουσιν. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 19 6:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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