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θυιάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυιάς θυιάδος

Structure: θυιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qu/w

Sense

  1. a mad or inspired woman, a Bacchante

Declension

Third 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

  • λάβωσιν, ὁ μὲν βασιλεὺσ ῥαπίζει τῷ ὑποδήματι τὸ εἴδωλον, ἡ δὲ τῶν Θυιάδων ἀρχηγὸσ ἀραμένη κομίζει πρόσ τινα τόπον φαραγγώδη, κἀκεῖ σχοινίον περιάψαντεσ τῷ τραχήλῳ τοῦ εἰδώλου κατορύττουσιν, ὅπου τὴν Χάριλλαν ἀπαγξαμένην ἔθαψαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 12 4:1)
  • ἡ δὲ τῶν Θυιάδων ἀρχηγὸσ ἀραμένη κομίζει πρόσ τινα τόπον φαραγγώδη, κἀκεῖ σχοινίον περιάψαντεσ τῷ τραχήλῳ τοῦ εἰδώλου κατορύττουσιν, ὅπου τὴν Χάριλαν ἀπαγξαμένην ἔθαψαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 12 11:1)
  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν ὁ αὐτόσ ἐστι Διονύσῳ, τίνα μᾶλλον ἢ σὲ γιγνώσκειν, ὦ Κλέα, δὴ προσῆκόν ἐστιν, ἀρχικλὰ μὲν οὖσαν ἐν Δελφοῖσ τῶν Θυιάδων, τοῖσ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 351)
  • τὸ ἕτερον δὲ οὐκ ἐδυνήθην συμβαλέσθαι πρότερον, ἐφ’ ὅτῳ καλλίχορον τὸν Πανοπέα εἴρηκε, πρὶν ἢ ἐδιδάχθην ὑπὸ τῶν παρ’ Ἀθηναίοισ καλουμένων Θυιάδων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 4:1)
  • καὶ ἡ ἐπίκλησισ ἡ ἐσ τὸν Πανοπέα Ὁμήρου ὑποσημαίνειν τῶν Θυιάδων δοκεῖ τὸν χορόν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 4:4)

Synonyms

  1. a mad or inspired woman

Related

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

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