Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μαίνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαίνη

Structure: μαιν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. maena

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

  • οὐκ ἔστιν, οὐ πιμπρᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ παῖσ ἐμὴ μαινὰσ θοάζει δεῦρο Κασάνδρα δρόμῳ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic8)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὀρθὰ πυρφορεῖσ μαινὰσ θοάζουσ’, οὐδέ σ’ αἱ τύχαι, τέκνον, ἐσωφρονήκασ’ , ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἐν ταὐτῷ μένεισ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:5)
  • ἣ δὲ ἰδοῦσα ἠίξ’, ἠύτε μαινὰσ ὄροσ κάτα δάσκιον ὕλῃ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 40:10)
  • μαινὰσ Ἐνυαλίου, πολεμαδόκε, θοῦρι κράνεια, τίσ νύ σε θῆκε θεᾷ δῶρον ἐγερσιμάχᾳ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1221)

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

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