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μυθικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυθικός μυθική μυθικόν

Structure: μυθικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. mythic, legendary

Examples

  • ταῦτα δ’ εἰπεῖν προήχθην οὐκ ἐπιτιμῶν ἐκείνοισ τοῖσ ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολλὴν ἔχων συγγνώμην, εἰ καὶ τῶν μυθικῶν ἥψαντο πλασμάτων, ἐθνικὰσ καὶ τοπικὰσ ἐκφέροντεσ ἱστορίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 7 1:1)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι περὶ τῶν μυθικῶν ἱστορημάτων καὶ μάλιστα τῶν εἰσ θεοὺσ ἀναφερομένων μακρῶν λόγων δεόμενον ὁρῶν ἐάσω, ἃ δέ μοι δοκοῦσιν ἀγαθὰ Ῥωμαῖοι λαβεῖν ἐκ τῆσ ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἀρχῆσ, ὡσ ἐκ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἔμαθον ἱστοριῶν ἀφηγήσομαι, προειπὼν ἐν οἱαίσ ἐτύγχανε ταραχαῖσ τὰ πράγματα τῆσ πόλεωσ ὄντα, πρὶν ἐκεῖνον ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν παρελθεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 61 4:1)
  • " ὁ δὲ περιενεγκὼν τὴν φιάλην τοῦ Βαθυκλέουσ παῖσ Θυρίων ἐκαλεῖτο, καθά φησιν Ἔλευσισ ἐν τῷ Περὶ Ἀχιλλέωσ καὶ Ἀλέξων ὁ Μύνδιοσ ἐν ἐνάτῳ Μυθικῶν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. QALHS 8:5)

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

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