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Θήβη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Θήβη

Structure: Θηβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: poet. form of Qh=bai, Hom.

Sense

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Θήβη Θήβᾱ Θῆβαι
Genitive Θήβης Θήβαιν Θηβῶν
Dative Θήβῃ Θήβαιν Θήβαις
Accusative Θήβην Θήβᾱ Θήβᾱς
Vocative Θήβη Θήβᾱ Θῆβαι

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

  • ἁ κλει]νά τε Θήβα δέκτ[ό νιν ε]ὐρύχορόν τ’ Ἄργο[σ Σικυώ]ν τε κατ’ αἶσαν· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 10 4:2)
  • ἀκτὶσ ἀελίου, τὸ κάλλιστον ἑπταπύλῳ φανὲν Θήβᾳ τῶν προτέρων φάοσ, ἐφάνθησ ποτ’, ὦ χρυσέασ ἁμέρασ βλέφαρον, Διρκαίων ὑπὲρ ῥεέθρων μολοῦσα, τὸν λεύκασπιν Ἀργόθεν ἐκβάντα φῶτα πανσαγίᾳ φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ κινήσασα χαλινῷ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἁ μεγαλώνυμοσ ἦλθε Νίκα τᾷ πολυαρμάτῳ ἀντιχαρεῖσα Θήβᾳ, ἐκ μὲν δὴ πολέμων τῶν νῦν θέσθαι λησμοσύναν, θεῶν δὲ ναοὺσ χοροῖσ παννυχίοισ πάντασ ἐπέλθωμεν, ὁ Θήβασ δ’ ἐλελίχθων Βάκχιοσ ἄρχοι. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • καί κε μυθήσαιθ’ ὁποίαν, Ἀρκεσίλα, εὑρ͂ε παγὰν ἀμβροσίων ἐπέων, πρόσφατον Θήβᾳ ξενωθείσ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 92:2)
  • μᾶτερ ἐμά, τὸ τεόν, χρύσασπι Θήβα, πρᾶγμα καὶ ἀσχολίασ ὑπέρτερον θήσομαι. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 1 1:1)

Similar forms

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

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