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μυγαλῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυγαλῆ

Structure: μυγαλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: mu=s, gale/h

Sense

  1. the shrew-mouse, field-mouse

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

  • "τὸ δ’ οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο, οὐδ’ ἢν εἰσ τοῦ Νεμείου λέοντοσ τὸ δέρμα ἐνδήσῃ τισ ἑκκαίδεκα ὅλασ μυγαλᾶσ· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 8:9)
  • "ὁ γοῦν Ἀσκληπιὸσ αὐτὸσ καὶ οἱ παῖδεσ αὐτοῦ ἤπια φάρμακα πάσσοντεσ ἐθεράπευον τοὺσ νοσοῦντασ, οὐ λεοντᾶσ καὶ μυγαλᾶσ περιάπτοντεσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 10:5)
  • τὰσ δὲ μυγαλᾶσ καὶ τοὺσ ἴρηκασ ἀπάγουσι ἐσ Βουτοῦν πόλιν, τὰσ δὲ ἴβισ ἐσ Ἑρμέω πόλιν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 67 2:4)

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

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