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ἡβός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡβός ἡβή ἡβόν

Structure: ἡβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = h(bw=n, Theocr.

Sense

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ὅταν γὰρ ἡβᾷ δῆμοσ εἰσ ὀργὴν πεσών, ὅμοιον ὥστε πῦρ κατασβέσαι λάβρον· (Euripides, episode, iambic 21:1)
  • ἥβᾳ μὴ τέλεον δόντεσ ἔχειν παρ’ αἶσαν, ὕβριν δ’ ἑτοίμωσ στυγοῦντεσ, πέλοιτ’ ἂν ἔνδικοι γάμοισ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 32)
  • πέμπε δ’ Ἑρμᾶσ χρυσόραπισ διδύμουσ υἱοὺσ ἐπ’ ἄτρυτον πόνον, τὸν μὲν Ἐχίονα, κεχλάδοντασ ἥβᾳ, τὸν δ’ Ἔρυτον. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 55:1)
  • εἰ γάρ σφισιν ἐμπεδοσθενέα βίοτον ἁρμόσαισ ἥβᾳ λιπαρῷ τε γήραϊ διαπλέκοισ εὐδαίμον’ ἐόντα, παίδων δὲ παῖδεσ ἔχοιεν αἰεὶ γέρασ τό περ νῦν καὶ ἄρειον ὄπιθεν. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 7 28:2)
  • οὗ κατ’ Ὄλυμπον ἄλοχοσ Ἥβα τελείᾳ παρὰ ματέρι βαίνοισ’ ἔστι, καλλίστα θεῶν. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 10 6:1)

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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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