Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κάλχη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλχη

Structure: καλχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the murex or purple limpet.

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

  • δεινῆσ δ’ ἀπλοίασ πνευμάτων τε τυγχάνων, ἐσ ἔμπυρ’ ἦλθε, καὶ λέγει Κάλχασ τάδε· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 1:5)
  • Κάλχασ τισ ἦλθε μάντισ ἐκ Τροίασ πάλιν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 2:46)
  • Κάλχασ δ’ ὁ μάντισ ἀπορίᾳ κεχρημένοισ ἀνεῖλεν Ἰφιγένειαν ἣν ἔσπειρ’ ἐγὼ Ἀρτέμιδι θῦσαι τῇ τόδ’ οἰκούσῃ πέδον, καὶ πλοῦν τ’ ἔσεσθαι καὶ κατασκαφὰσ Φρυγῶν θύσασι, μὴ θύσασι δ’ οὐκ εἶναι τάδε. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 2:5)
  • μόνοι δ’ Ἀχαιῶν ἴσμεν ὡσ ἔχει τάδε Κάλχασ Ὀδυσσεὺσ Μενέλεώσ θ’. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 2:10)
  • κᾆτ’, ἐπεὶ Κάλχασ ἐν ἱεροῖσ εἶπε σὴν θῦσαι κόρην Ἀρτέμιδι, καὶ πλοῦν ἔσεσθαι Δαναί̈δαισ, ἡσθεὶσ φρένασ ἄσμενοσ θύσειν ὑπέστησ παῖδα· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 1:9)

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

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