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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

  • οἳ γῆν μολόντεσ Ἑλλάδ’ οὐ θεῶν βρέτη ᾐδοῦντο συλᾶν οὐδὲ πιμπράναι νεώσ· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 2:6)
  • πότερα δῆτ’ ἐγὼ <πάτρια> ποτιπέσω βρέτη δαιμόνων; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode, lyric10)
  • ὑμᾶσ ἐρωτῶ, θρέμματ’ οὐκ ἀνασχετά, ἦ ταῦτ’ ἄριστα καὶ πόλει σωτήρια, στρατῷ τε θάρσοσ τῷδε πυργηρουμένῳ, βρέτη πεσούσασ πρὸσ πολισσούχων θεῶν αὐείν, λακάζειν, σωφρόνων μισήματα; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ δαιμόνων πρόδρομοσ ἦλθον ἀρ‐ χαῖα βρέτη, θεοῖσι πίσυνοσ, νιφάδοσ ὅτ’ ὀλοᾶσ νειφομένασ βρόμοσ ἐν πύλαισ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα τεμένη καὶ βωμοὺσ καὶ βρέτη θεῶν καθωσίωσαν, ἁγισμούσ τε καὶ θυσίασ κατεστήσαντο πατρίουσ, αἳ μέχρι τῶν κατ’ ἐμὲ χρόνων τὸν αὐτὸν ἐγίνοντο τρόπον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 33 4:1)

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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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