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βρέτας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βρέτας

Structure: βρετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a wooden image of a god

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βρέτας βρέτᾱ βρέται
Genitive βρέτου βρέταιν βρετῶν
Dative βρέτῃ βρέταιν βρέταις
Accusative βρέτην βρέτᾱ βρέτᾱς
Vocative βρέτα βρέτᾱ βρέται

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

  • ὁ γὰρ Παρνάσιοσ Φωκεὺσ Ἐπειόσ, μηχαναῖσι Παλλάδοσ ἐγκύμον’ ἵππον τευχέων ξυναρμόσασ, πύργων ἔπεμψεν ἐντὸσ ὀλέθριον βρέτασ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:4)
  • ἐλθὼν δ’ Ἀθήνασ Παλλάδοσ σεμνὸν βρέτασ πρόσπτυξον· (Euripides, episode, anapests 2:4)
  • ἦ πόλλ’ ἀέλπτ’ ἔνεστιν ἐν τῷ μακρῷ βίῳ φεῦ, ἐπεὶ τίσ ἄν ποτ’ ἤλπισ’ ὦ Στρυμόδωρ’ ἀκοῦσαι γυναῖκασ, ἃσ ἐβόσκομεν κατ’ οἶκον ἐμφανὲσ κακόν, κατὰ μὲν ἅγιον ἔχειν βρέτασ, κατὰ δ’ ἀκρόπολιν ἐμὰν λαβεῖν μοχλοῖσ δὲ καὶ κλῄθροισι τὰ προπύλαια πακτοῦν; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, strophe 11)
  • ἢν γὰρ θεᾶσ κατάσχωμεν βρέτασ, μανιῶν τε λήξω καὶ σὲ πολυκώπῳ σκάφει στείλασ Μυκήναισ ἐγκαταστήσω πάλιν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:8)
  • ὡσ τἄμ’ ὄλωλε πάντα καὶ τὰ Πελοπιδῶν, οὐράνιον εἰ μὴ ληψόμεσθα θεᾶσ βρέτασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:10)

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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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