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θεογονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεογονία

Structure: θεογονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: gene/sqai

Sense

  1. the generation or genealogy of the gods

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

  • τῷ δείπνῳ ὅ τε Ἀπόλλων ἐκιθάρισε καὶ ὁ Σιληνὸσ κόρδακα ὠρχήσατο καὶ αἱ Μοῦσαι ἀναστᾶσαι τῆσ τε Ἡσιόδου Θεογονίασ ᾖσαν ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν πρώτην ᾠδὴν τῶν ὕμνων τῶν Πινδάρου. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 27:4)
  • Ἀναξιμένησ δὲ ὁ Λαμψακηνὸσ τὴν πρώτην τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἀνέγραψεν ἀρξάμενοσ ἀπὸ θεογονίασ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πρώτου γένουσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, κατέστροφε δ’ εἰσ τὴν ἐν Μαντινείᾳ μάχην καὶ τὴν Ἐπαμεινώνδου τελευτήν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 88 10:2)
  • ἐκεῖνοσ γὰρ ἀρξάμενοσ τῆσ θεογονίασ καὶ τὰσ Μούσασ ὑμνῶν εὐθὺσ λέγει αἵ νύ ποθ’ Ἡσίοδον καλὴν ἐδίδαξαν ἀοιδήν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:12)

Synonyms

  1. the generation or genealogy of the gods

Related

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

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