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ἄττης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄττης ἄττες

Structure: ἀττη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

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

  • Ἀνὰ Δίνδυμον Κυβήβησ Φρύγεσ ἔνθεον ὀλολυγὴν ἁπαλῷ τελοῦσιν Ἄττῃ, καὶ πρὸσ μέλοσ κεραύλου Φρυγίου κατ̓ ὄρεα Τμώλου κῶμον βοῶσι Λυδοί· (Lucian, 6)
  • ἀλλὰ σύ, ὦ τολμηρότατε, καὶ τὴν Ῥέαν αὐτὴν γραῦν ἤδη καὶ μητέρα τοσούτων θεῶν οὖσαν ἀνέπεισασ παιδεραστεῖν καὶ τὸ Φρύγιον μειράκιον ποθεῖν, καὶ νῦν ἐκείνη μέμηνεν ὑπὸ σοῦ καὶ ζευξαμένη τοὺσ λέοντασ, παραλαβοῦσα καὶ τοὺσ Κορύβαντασ ἅτε μανικοὺσ καὶ αὐτοὺσ ὄντασ, ἄνω καὶ κάτω τὴν Ἴδην περιπολοῦσιν, ἡ μὲν ὀλολύζουσα ἐπὶ τῷ Ἄττῃ, οἱ Κορύβαντεσ δὲ ὁ μὲν αὐτῶν τέμνεται ξίφει τὸν πῆχυν, ὁ δὲ ἀνεὶσ τὴν κόμην ἱέται μεμηνὼσ διὰ τῶν ὀρῶν, ὁ δὲ αὐλεῖ τῷ κέρατι, ὁ δὲ ἐπιβομβεῖ τῷ τυμπάνῳ ἢ ἐπικτυπεῖ τῷ κυμβάλῳ, καὶ ὅλωσ θόρυβοσ καὶ μανία τὰ ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ ἅπαντά ἐστι. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:4)
  • αὐτὴ μὲν γὰρ ἡ Ῥέα πότε ἂν ἐκείνη σχολὴν ἀγάγοι ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ ὅλη οὖσα ἐν τῷ Ἄττῃ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἡ Ῥέα αὐτοῖσ ἡ Φρυγία τιμᾶται ἐκ Πεσσινοῦντοσ ἐλθοῦσα, καὶ τὸ πένθοσ τὸ ἀμφὶ τῷ Ἄττῃ Φρύγιον ὂν ἐν Ῥώμῃ πενθεῖται, καὶ τὸ λουτρὸν δ̓ ἡ Ῥέα, ἀφ̓ οὗ τοῦ πένθουσ λήγει, Φρυγῶν νόμῳ λοῦται. (Arrian, chapter 33 5:3)
  • Δυμαίοισ δὲ ἔστι μὲν Ἀθηνᾶσ ναὸσ καὶ ἄγαλμα ἐσ τὰ μάλιστα ἀρχαῖον, ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλο ἱερόν σφισι Δινδυμήνῃ μητρὶ καὶ Ἄττῃ πεποιημένον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 16:1)

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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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