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μυθολογίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυθολογίᾱ μυθολογίας

Structure: μυθολογι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from mu_qolo/gos

Sense

  1. romance, fiction, legend
  2. story-telling

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

  • καίτοι λεπταί τινεσ ἀπορροαὶ καὶ ἀμυδραὶ τῆσ ἀληθείασ ἔνεισι ταῖσ Αἰγυπτίων ἐνδιεσπαρμέναι μυθολογίαισ, ἀλλ’ ἰχνηλάτου δεινοῦ δέονται καὶ μεγάλα μικροῖσ ἑλεῖν δυναμένου. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 17 27:1)
  • καὶ μυθολογίαισ τὰ σεμνότατα καὶ ἁγνότατα τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἱερῶν ἀνατρέπων. (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 13 8:1)
  • "ὁρᾷσ γὰρ ὅτι καὶ Πλάτων ἐν τῷ Συμποσίῳ περὶ τέλουσ διαλεγόμενοσ καὶ τοῦ πρώτου ἀγαθοῦ καὶ ὅλωσ θεολογῶν οὐκ ἐντείνει τὴν ἀπόδειξιν οὐδ’ ὑποκονίεται, τὴν λαβὴν ὥσπερ εἰώθεν εὔτονον ποιῶν καὶ ἄφυκτον, ἀλλ’ ὑγροτέροισ λήμμασι καὶ παραδείγμασι καὶ μυθολογίαισ προσάγεται τοὺσ ἄνδρασ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 11:7)
  • ἐλέγομεν ταῖσ μυθολογίαισ, διὰ τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι ὅπῃ τἀληθὲσ ἔχει περὶ τῶν παλαιῶν, ἀφομοιοῦντεσ τῷ ἀληθεῖ τὸ ψεῦδοσ ὅτι μάλιστα, οὕτω χρήσιμον ποιοῦμεν; (Plato, Republic, book 2 454:1)
  • ἔνιοι γὰρ τῶν ἀναγινωσκόντων οὐ δικαίᾳ χρώμενοι κρίσει τἀκριβὲσ ἐπιζητοῦσιν ἐν ταῖσ ἀρχαίαισ μυθολογίαισ ἐπ’ ἴσησ τοῖσ πραττομένοισ ἐν τοῖσ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ χρόνοισ, καὶ τὰ δισταζόμενα τῶν ἔργων διὰ τὸ μέγεθοσ ἐκ τοῦ καθ’ αὑτοὺσ βίου τεκμαιρόμενοι, τὴν Ἡρακλέουσ δύναμιν ἐκ τῆσ ἀσθενείασ τῶν νῦν ἀνθρώπων θεωροῦσιν, ὥστε διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τοῦ μεγέθουσ τῶν ἔργων ἀπιστεῖσθαι τὴν γραφήν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 8 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. romance

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