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βρέτας?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: bretas

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 βρέτα βρέται
Genitive βρέτου βρέταιν βρετῶν
Dative βρέτῃ βρέταιν βρέταις
Accusative βρέτην βρέτα βρέτας
Vocative βρέτα βρέτα 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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