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Τιτάν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τιτάν Τιτᾶνος

Structure: Τιταν (Stem)

Etym.: The oldest deriv. of the name is given in Hes., the stretchers, strivers; others connect it with ti/tas (from ti/nw), avengers.

Sense

  1. the Titans, Titan

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

  • ἀλλὰ φύλαττε, ὦ Τιτάν, εἰ τοῦτ’ ἄμεινον. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 21:7)
  • δεξιᾷ δὲ λαμπάδα Τιτὰν Προμηθεὺσ ἔφερεν ὡσ πρήσων πόλιν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 4:2)
  • ἐν δ’ ὁ πυρφόροσ θεὸσ Τιτὰν Προμηθεύσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:21)
  • χρησμὸσ ἐρωτήσαντι Ῥουφίνῳ, πῶσ ἂν λάβοι ὁρ́κον παρὰ τοῦ ἰδίου ναυκλήρου εὖτ’ ἂν ὑπὲρ γαίησ ἀνέχῃ δρόμον ὄρθρια Τιτάν, λύσασ ἀκτῖσι ζοφερῆσ δηλήματα νυκτόσ, λάμπῃ δ’ αἰγλήεσσα νέον φάοσ Ἠριγένεια, δὴ τότ’ ἄγων παρὰ θῖνασ, ἁλιρράντουσ τε παρ’ ἀκτὰσ φῶτα στῆσον ἔναντα δεδορκότα πρὸσ φάοσ αὐγῆσ ἠελίου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 721)
  • πρὸσ τοὺσ αὐτούσ ἡνίκα τὸν περίβωτον ἐπ’ οὔρεοσ, ἄγριε Τιτάν, τύμβον ἀνερρήξω, πῶσ ἔσιδεσ νέκυασ, ὡσ δ’ ἔσιδεσ, πῶσ χεῖρεσ ἐπ’ ὀστέα; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 2041)

Synonyms

  1. the Titans

Related

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

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