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θέσπις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θέσπις θέσπιος

Structure: θεσπι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qeo/s, e)/spon ei)=pon, cf. qespe/sios

Sense

  1. having words from God, inspired
  2. divine, wondrous, awful

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θέσπις θέσπιε θέσπιες
Genitive θέσπιος θεσπίοιν θεσπίων
Dative θέσπῑ θεσπίοιν θέσπισιν*
Accusative θέσπιν θέσπιε θέσπιας
Vocative θέσπι θέσπιε θέσπιες

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

  • ἐνταῦθα μὲν ὁ πατὴρ ἔφη τὸν περὶ Ἔρωτοσ αὐτοῖσ τελευτῆσαι λόγον, τῶν Θεσπιῶν ἐγγὺσ οὖσιν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 26 2:1)
  • ἦν δ’ ἡ Φρύνη ἐκ Θεσπιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 591)
  • βασιλεὺσ δὲ ἦν οὗτοσ Θεσπιῶν, πρὸσ ὃν ἀφίκετο Ἡρακλῆσ ἑλεῖν βουλόμενοσ τὸν λέοντα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 4 10:1)
  • αὐτῆσ δὲ τῆσ Φρύνησ οἱ περικτίονεσ Θεσπιῶν ἀνδριάντα ποιήσαντεσ ἀνέθηκαν ἐν Δελφοῖσ χρύσεον ἐπὶ κίονοσ Πεντελικοῦ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section5)
  • ἔστι τοίνυν ἔν τινι τοιούτῳ καιρῷ τὰ πράγματα νῦν, εἴ τι δεῖ τοῖσ εἰρημένοισ πολλάκισ παρ’ ὑμῖν λόγοισ τεκμήρασθαι, ὥστε Θηβαίουσ μὲν Ὀρχομενοῦ καὶ Θεσπιῶν καὶ Πλαταιῶν οἰκισθεισῶν ἀσθενεῖσ γενέσθαι, Λακεδαιμονίουσ δ’, εἰ ποιήσονται τὴν Ἀρκαδίαν ὑφ’ ἑαυτοῖσ καὶ Μεγάλην πόλιν ἀναιρήσουσι, πάλιν ἰσχυροὺσ γενήσεσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 6:2)

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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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