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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

  • μνημονεύει αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἀντίμαχοσ ὁ Κολοφώνιοσ ἐν τῇ Θηβαίδι λέγων οὕτωσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 696)
  • τῆσ δ’ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ζωογονίασ τεκμήριον πειρῶνται φέρειν τὸ καὶ νῦν ἔτι τὴν ἐν Θηβαΐδι χώραν κατά τινασ καιροὺσ τοσούτουσ καὶ τηλικούτουσ μῦσ γεννᾶν ὥστε τοὺσ ἰδόντασ τὸ γινόμενον ἐκπλήττεσθαι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 10 2:1)
  • κτίσαι δέ φασι τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Ὄσιριν πόλιν ἐν τῇ Θηβαΐδι τῇ κατ’ Αἴγυπτον ἑκατόμπυλον, ἣν ἐκείνουσ μὲν ἐπώνυμον ποιῆσαι τῆσ μητρόσ, τοὺσ δὲ μεταγενεστέρουσ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζειν Διὸσ πόλιν, ἐνίουσ δὲ Θήβασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 15 1:1)
  • διόπερ ἐν τῇ Θηβαΐδι χαλκουργείων εὑρεθέντων καὶ χρυσείων ὅπλα τε κατασκευάσασθαι, δἰ ὧν τὰ θηρία κτείνοντασ καὶ τὴν γῆν ἐργαζομένουσ φιλοτίμωσ ἐξημερῶσαι τὴν χώραν, ἀγάλματά τε καὶ χρυσοῦσ ναοὺσ κατασκευάσασθαι τῶν θεῶν διαπρεπεῖσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 15 5:1)
  • ἐν δὲ Πλαταιῇσι οἱ Πέρσαι ὡσ ἐτράποντο ὑπὸ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων, ἔφευγον οὐδένα κόσμον ἐσ τὸ στρατόπεδον τὸ ἑωυτῶν καὶ ἐσ τὸ τεῖχοσ τὸ ξύλινον τὸ ἐποιήσαντο ἐν μοίρῃ τῇ Θηβαί̈δι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 65 2:1)

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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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