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θεομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεομαχία

Structure: θεομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from qeoma/xos

Sense

  1. a battle 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

  • ἀμφοτέρων δὲ τῇ τε τοῦ σώματοσ ῥώμῃ καὶ τῇ τῆσ ἀλκῆσ ὑπεροχῇ θαυμαζομένων οἱονεί τισ θεομαχία μέλλουσα γίνεσθαι προσεδοκήθη· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 100 6:1)
  • ἐφαίνετο γὰρ διὰ μακροῦ θεομαχίᾳ παραπλήσιοσ ἡ θέα, τοσούτων μὲν νεῶν πυρπολουμένων, τῆσ δὲ φλογὸσ διὰ τῶν ἱστίων εἰσ ὕψοσ ἀναφερομένησ, καὶ τῶν μὲν Ἑλλήνων καθ’ ἕκαστον τῶν προτερημάτων ἐπισημαινομένων ἐξαισίῳ βοῇ, τῶν δὲ βαρβάρων διὰ τὴν ἔκπληξιν τοῦ δεινοῦ πολὺν θόρυβον καὶ κραυγὴν σύμμικτον ποιούντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 74 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a battle of the gods

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

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