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

  • οὗτοσ σύ, μαίνῃ καὶ κακῶν ἐρᾷσ τυχεῖν; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 8:30)
  • μαίνῃ γὰρ ὡσ ἄλγιστα, κοὔτε φαρμάκοισ ἄκη λάβοισ ἂν οὔτ’ ἄνευ τούτων νοσεῖσ. (Euripides, episode 13:4)
  • μαίνῃ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode13)
  • ἐφ’ ᾗ σὺ μαίνῃ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 9:25)
  • οὐ δῆτ’ ἔμοιγε, τοῦτο μὴ δόξῃσ ποτέ, οὔθ’ ἥδ’ ὀλεῖται πλησία, σύ τ’ οὐδαμὰ τοὐμὸν προσόψει κρᾶτ’ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ ὁρῶν, ὡσ τοῖσ θέλουσι τῶν φίλων μαίνῃ συνών. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:4)

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

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