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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

  • μετὰ ταῦτα δὲ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ Θηβαί̈δοσ καὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ Αἰγύπτου βασιλέων γενέσθαι φησὶν ἐπὶ τοὺσ ποιμένασ ἐπανάστασιν καὶ πόλεμον συρραγῆναι μέγαν καὶ πολυχρόνιον. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 99:1)
  • Ἀντίμαχοσ δ’ ὁ Κολοφώνιοσ ἐν πέμπτῳ Θηβαίδοσ φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 33 1:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ Ἀντίμαχοσ ὁ Κολοφώνιοσ ἐν πέμπτῳ Θηβαίδοσ φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 50 1:5)
  • Ἀντίμαχοσ δ’ ἐν ε Θηβαίδοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 65 1:3)
  • ἔλεγε δὲ ὧδε, εἶναι δύο ὄρεα ἐσ ὀξὺ τὰσ κορυφὰσ ἀπηγμένα, μεταξὺ Συήνησ τε πόλιοσ κείμενα τῆσ Θηβαί̈δοσ καὶ Ἐλεφαντίνησ, οὐνόματα δὲ εἶναι τοῖσι ὄρεσι τῷ μὲν Κρῶφι τῷ δὲ Μῶφι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 28 3:2)

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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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