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ἡμός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμός ἡμή ἡμόν

Structure: ἡμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = h(me/teros.

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

  • ὦ Τύχη πρόνοιά θ’ ἡμή, σῴσαθ’ οὓσ ἐγὼ θέλω. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees15)
  • ἀλλ’ οὖν ταῦτ’ ἐστὶν ἐκεῖνα, ἐξ ὧν ἄνδρασ Μαραθωνομάχασ ἡμὴ παίδευσισ ἔθρεψεν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme 1:1)
  • ὅθεν ἡμὴ φρὴν ἀπομαξαμένη πολλὰσ ἀρετὰσ ἐποίησεν, Πατρόκλων, Τεύκρων θυμολεόντων, ἵν’ ἐπαίροιμ’ ἄνδρα πολίτην ἀντεκτείνειν αὑτὸν τούτοισ, ὁπόταν σάλπιγγοσ ἀκούσῃ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Antepirrheme28)
  • ἐσ σὲ ἐλπὶσ ἡμὴ καταφυγὰσ ἔχει κακῶν. (Euripides, episode, iambic 4:27)
  • τὰ δὲ παννυχίδων ἤδη στυγεραὶ ξυνίσασ’ εὐναὶ μογερῶν οἴκων, ὅσα τὸν δύστηνον ἐμὸν θρηνῶ πατέρ’, ὃν κατὰ μὲν βάρβαρον αἰᾶν φοίνιοσ Ἄρησ οὐκ ἐξένισεν, μήτηρ δ’ ἡμὴ χὠ κοινολεχὴσ Αἴγισθοσ ὅπωσ δρῦν ὑλοτόμοι σχίζουσι κάρα φονίῳ πελέκει, κοὐδεὶσ τούτων οἶκτοσ ἀπ’ ἄλλησ ἢ ’μοῦ φέρεται, σοῦ, πάτερ, οὕτωσ αἰκῶσ οἰκτρῶσ τε θανόντοσ. (Sophocles, episode, anapests2)

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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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