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μυθολόγημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυθολόγημα μυθολόγηματος

Structure: μυθολογηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from mu_qologe/w

Sense

  1. a mythical narrative

Declension

Third 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

  • ἡ δὲ Ἑκάλη καὶ τὸ περὶ αὐτὴν μυθολόγημα τοῦ ξενισμοῦ καὶ τῆσ ὑποδοχῆσ ἐοίκε μὴ πάσησ ἀμοιρεῖν ἀληθείασ. (Plutarch, chapter 14 2:1)
  • ἀλλ’ εἰπὲ πρὸσ Διόσ, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, σὺ τοῦτο τὸ μυθολόγημα πείθῃ ἀληθὲσ εἶναι; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 15:4)
  • τὸ μὲν τοῦ Σιδωνίου μυθολόγημα ῥᾴδιον ἐγένετο πείθειν, οὕτωσ ἀπίθανον ὄν, καὶ ἄλλα μυρία; (Plato, Laws, book 2 69:4)
  • εἰ δ’ ἔτυχον παριόντεσ Ὅμηροσ καὶ Ἡσίοδοσ, ῥᾳδίωσ ἄν μοι δοκοῦσιν εἰπεῖν τὸ περὶ τοῦ τείχουσ τοῦ Τρωικοῦ μυθολόγημα μεταθέντεσ, ὡσ ἄρα Ποσειδῶν καὶ Ἀπόλλων κοινῇ φιλοτεχνήσαντεσ ἀπειργάσαντο τὸ ἔργον τῇ πόλει, ὁ μὲν τὴν πέτραν παρασχὼν ἐκ τοῦ βυθοῦ τῆσ θαλάττησ καὶ ἅμα ποιήσασ δυνατὴν εἶναι κομισθῆναι, ὁ δ’ ὥσπερ εἰκὸσ οἰκιστὴν βουληθεὶσ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πόλιν κοσμῆσαι προσθήκῃ τηλικαύτῃ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:8)

Related

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

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