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φθογγή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθογγή

Structure: φθογγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = fqo/ggos, Hom., etc.

Sense

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

  • σὺ δ’, εἴ τι μείζω δύναμιν ἢ μήτηρ ἔχεισ, σπούδαζε πάσασ ὥστ’ ἀηδόνοσ στόμα φθογγὰσ ἱεῖσα, μὴ στερηθῆναι βίου. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 2:21)
  • ὦ παῖδε Διόσ, θέμισ ἐσ φθογγὰσ τὰσ ὑμετέρασ ἡμῖν πελάθειν; (Euripides, episode, anapests1)
  • παρῆν δ’ ὁρᾶν οὐ ταῦτα μορφῆσ σχήματ’, ἀλλ’ ἠλλάσσετο φθογγάσ τε μόσχων καὶ κυνῶν ὑλάγματα, ἃσ φᾶσ’ Ἐρινῦσ ἱέναι μιμήματα. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 2:9)
  • καὶ τῶν ἁλόντων καὶ κρατησάντων δίχα φθογγὰσ ἀκούειν ἔστι συμφορᾶσ διπλῆσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:4)

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

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