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θέσπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θέσπιος θέσπιον

Structure: θεσπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = qespe/sios, Orac. ap. Ar.

Sense

Declension

First/Second 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

  • διατελῶν δὲ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ, πέμψασ πρὸσ Θέσπιον ἑπτὰ μὲν κατέχειν ἔλεγε παῖδασ, τρεῖσ δὲ εἰσ Θήβασ ἀποστέλλειν, τοὺσ δὲ λοιποὺσ τεσσαράκοντα πέμπειν εἰσ Σαρδὼ τὴν νῆσον ἐπ’ ἀποικίαν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 7 6:2)
  • θυγατέρα δὲ εἶναι Θέσπιαν λέγουσιν Ἀσωποῦ καὶ ἀπὸ ταύτησ κληθῆναι τὴν πόλιν, οἱ δὲ Θέσπιόν φασιν ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν ἐλθόντα τὸ ὄνομα τῇ πόλει δοῦναι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 9:2)

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

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