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θῆσσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θῆσσα

Structure: θησς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. female mercenary
  2. chariot upon which were carried the statues of idols

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

  • θυσίασ δὲ καὶ πομπὰσ καὶ θέασ οὐ μόνον ἐξ αἰτίασ τηλικαύτησ, ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ μικρὰσ Ῥωμαίοισ ἔθοσ ἐστὶν ἀναλαμβάνειν, ἵππου τε γὰρ ἑνὸσ τῶν ἀγόντων τὰσ καλουμένασ θήσσασ ἀτονήσαντοσ, καὶ πάλιν τοῦ ἡνιόχου τῇ ἀριστερᾷ χειρὶ τὰσ ἡνίασ συλλαβόντοσ, αὖθισ ἐψηφίσαντο τὴν πομπὴν ἐπιτελεῖν. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 25 3:1)

Similar forms

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

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