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Τρίτων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τρίτων Τρίτωνος

Structure: Τριτων (Stem)

Sense

  1. Triton, Tritons

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

  • καὶ ὑμεῖσ, ὦ Τρίτωνεσ, διαπορθμεύσατε τὴν Λητὼ ἐσ αὐτήν· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, iris and poseidon, chapter 23)
  • ἥ τε γὰρ θάλαττα εὐθὺσ ἀκύμων ἐγένετο καὶ τὴν γαλήνην ἐπισπασαμένη λείαν παρεῖχεν ἑαυτήν, ἡμεῖσ δὲ πάντεσ ἡσυχίαν ἄγοντεσ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ θεαταὶ μόνον τῶν γιγνομένων παρηκολουθοῦμεν, Ἔρωτεσ δὲ παραπετόμενοι μικρὸν ἐκ τῆσ θαλάττησ, ὡσ ἐνίοτε ἄκροισ τοῖσ ποσὶν ἐπιψαύειν τοῦ ὕδατοσ, ἡμμένασ τὰσ δᾷδασ φέροντεσ ᾖδον ἅμα τὸν ὑμέναιον, αἱ Νηρηίδεσ δὲ ἀναδῦσαι παρίππευον ἐπὶ τῶν δελφίνων ἐπικροτοῦσαι ἡμίγυμνοι αἱ πολλαί, τό τε τῶν Τριτώνων γένοσ καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο μὴ φοβερὸν ἰδεῖν τῶν θαλαττίων ἅπαντα περιεχόρευε τὴν παῖδα· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, zephyrus and notus, chapter 33)
  • ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην δύο Τρίτωνεσ ἔφερον ἐπὶ κόγχησ κατακειμένην, ἄνθη παντοῖα ἐπιπάττουσαν τῇ νύμφῃ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, zephyrus and notus, chapter 3 1:2)
  • τὴν μὲν ἔτικτε πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε πὰρ κορυφὴν Τρίτωνοσ ἐπ’ ὄχθῃσιν ποταμοῖο. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 92:7)
  • "ἄνδρεσ Τρίτωνεσ, ὑπὸ τοῦ δέουσ καταβαλὼν ἐμαυταν ὑπὸ τοὺσ θαλάμουσ ὡσ ἔνι μάλιστα κατωτάτω ἐκείμην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5 2:2)
  • Ἐλευθέραν τινά, ὦ Τρίτων, λέγεισ, ἢ θεράπαινά τισ ὑδροφόροσ ἐστίν; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 13)
  • Ὦ Τρίτων, οὐ μετρίωσ διετάραξάσ με εἰπὼν τὰ περὶ τῆσ παιδόσ· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 25)
  • σὺ δὲ παρανήχου, ὦ Τρίτων. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 2 1:4)
  • Καλή, ὦ Τρίτων, καὶ ὡραία παρθένοσ· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 31)
  • Ὑπὸ τίνοσ, ὦ Τρίτων; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 1 1:1)

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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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