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Ὠγυγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὠγυγία

Structure: Ὠγυγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. Ogygia

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

  • ἔνθα μοι καὶ Ὀδυσσεὺσ προσελθὼν λάθρᾳ τῆσ Πηνελόπησ δίδωσιν ἐπιστολὴν εἰσ Ὠγυγίαν τὴν νῆσον Καλυψοῖ κομίζειν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 29:2)
  • οἰκτρὸν γὰρ πόλιν ὧδ’ ὠγυγίαν Αἴδᾳ προϊάψαι, δορὸσ ἄγραν δουλίαν ψαφαρᾷ σποδῷ ὑπ’ ἀνδρὸσ Ἀχαιοῦ θεόθεν περθομέναν ἀτίμωσ, τὰσ δὲ κεχειρωμένασ ἄγεσθαι, ἒ ἔ, νέασ τε καὶ παλαιὰσ ἱππηδὸν πλοκάμων, περιρ‐ ρηγνυμένων φαρέων. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 21)
  • γαμεῖ δὲ Ζῆθοσ μὲν Θήβην, ἀφ’ ἧσ ἡ πόλισ Θῆβαι, Ἀμφίων δὲ Νιόβην τὴν Ταντάλου, ἣ γεννᾷ παῖδασ μὲν ἑπτά, Σίπυλον Εὐπίνυτον Ἰσμηνὸν Δαμασίχθονα Ἀγήνορα Φαίδιμον Τάνταλον, θυγατέρασ δὲ τὰσ ἴσασ, Ἐθοδαί̈αν ἢ ὥσ τινεσ Νέαιραν Κλεόδοξαν Ἀστυόχην Φθίαν Πελοπίαν Ἀστυκράτειαν Ὠγυγίαν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 5 6:1)
  • καὶ πάλιν ἀνεθέντα τὸν ἱστὸν θεωρήσασ, ἐπὶ τοῦτον ῥίψασ εἰσ Ὠγυγίαν νῆσον διεκομίσθη. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 7 23:3)

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

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