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μυθογραφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυθογραφία

Structure: μυθογραφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from mu_qogra/fos

Sense

  1. a writing of fables

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

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτοῦ Ὁμήρου ταῦτα μυθεύοντοσ, ὧν εἰσι καὶ οὗτοι οἱ πυγμαῖοι, οὐδ’ Ἀλκμᾶνοσ στεγανόποδασ ἱστοροῦντοσ, οὐδ’ Αἰσχύλου κυνοκεφάλουσ καὶ στερνοφθάλμουσ καὶ μονομμάτουσ, ὅπου γε οὐδὲ τοῖσ πεζῇ συγγράφουσιν ἐν ἱστορίασ σχήματι προσέχομεν περὶ πολλῶν, κἂν μὴ ἐξομολογῶνται τὴν μυθογραφίαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 70:12)

Synonyms

  1. a writing of fables

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

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