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Σίβυλλα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σίβυλλα

Structure: Σιβυλλ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a Sibyl, prophetess

Declension

First 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

  • "ταῦτα μὲν Θεαγένησ Σιβύλλησ ἀκηκοέναι φησίν, ἐγὼ δὲ Βάκιδοσ αὐτῷ χρησμὸν ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐρῶ· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:92)
  • "ἆρα φαυλότεροσ χρησμολόγοσ ὁ Βάκισ τῆσ Σιβύλλησ εἶναι; (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:96)
  • εὑρ́ητο δὲ χρησμὸσ ἤδη, ὡσ Σιβύλλησ προμαντευσαμένησ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 11:3)
  • ἔλεγε δ’’ ὁ δαίμων τὴν φωνὴν εἶναι Σιβύλλησ· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 48:1)
  • ἐὰν ποιητικὴν πάλιν ἢ μαντικὴν ἀποφαίνοντεσ οὐχ ἑτέραν μὲν ἀνδρῶν ἑτέραν δὲ γυναικῶν οὖσαν, ἀλλὰ τὴν αὐτήν, τὰ Σαπφοῦσ μέλη τοῖσ Ἀνακρέοντοσ ἢ τὰ Σιβύλλησ λόγια τοῖσ Βάκιδοσ ἀντιπαραβάλλωμεν, ἕξει τισ αἰτιάσασθαι δικαίωσ τὴν ἀπόδειξιν, ὅτι χαίροντα καὶ τερπόμενον ἐπάγει τῇ πίστει τὸν ἀκροατήν; (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 3:3)

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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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