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μέθη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέθη

Structure: μεθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = me/qu

Sense

  1. strong drink
  2. drunkenness

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

  • καὶ προελοῦσα τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐκ τῆσ πήρασ ἔδειξε καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ. ἰδοὺ ἡ κεφαλὴ Ὀλοφέρνου ἀρχιστρατήγου δυνάμεωσ Ἀσσούρ, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὸ κωνωπεῖον, ἐν ᾧ κατέκειτο ἐν ταῖσ μέθαισ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὸν ὁ Κύριοσ ἐν χειρὶ θηλείασ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 13:15)
  • Διονυσίου μὲν γὰρ οὐδεὶσ ὅστισ οὐκ ἂν κατεφρόνησε τῶν συνήθων ἐν μέθαισ καὶ κύβοισ καὶ γυναιξὶ τὰσ πλείστασ ποιουμένου διατριβάσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Dion and Brutus, chapter 4 1:2)
  • ἐστὶν γὰρ αὐτῷ τὸ μὲν τῶν μνηστήρων οἱο͂ν ἂν γένοιτο νεανίσκων μέθαισ καὶ ἔρωσιν ἀνακειμένων, τὸ δὲ τῶν Φαιάκων εὐσταθέστερον μὲν τούτων, φιλήδονον δέ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3 6:3)
  • "γενόμενοσ γοῦν τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ σχεδὸν ἁπάσησ κύριοσ ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ φανήσεται τῶν πόλεων οὔτε πρὸσ τὰσ ἀφροδισίουσ ἡδονὰσ ὁρμήσασ οὔτε μέθαισ καὶ πότοισ ἀκαίροισ χρησάμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 61 1:6)
  • ἐρασθεὶσ οὖν παρθένου Χαλκιδικῆσ κατὰ τὸν τοῦ πολέμου καιρὸν ἐφιλοτιμήσατο γῆμαι αὐτήν, οἰνοπότησ ὢν καὶ μέθαισ χαίρων ἦν δ’ αὕτη Κλεοπτολέμου μὲν θυγάτηρ ἑνὸσ τῶν ἐπιφανῶν, κάλλει δὲ πάσασ ὑπερβάλλουσα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 54 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. strong drink

  2. drunkenness

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

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