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σώτειρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σώτειρα

Structure: σωτειρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: swth/r

Sense

  1. Juno Sospita)

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἔμβα χὤπωσ ἀρεῖσ τὴν Σώτειραν γενναίωσ τῇ φωνῇ μολπάζων, ἣ τὴν χώραν σῴζειν φήσ’ ἐσ τὰσ ὡρ́ασ, κἂν Θωρυκίων μὴ βούληται. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, antistrophe 21)
  • μῆτίν τε γαρύων παλαιγόνων πόλεμόν τ’ ἐν ἡρωί̈αισ ἀρεταῖσιν οὐ ψεύσομ’ ἀμφὶ Κορίνθῳ, Σίσυφον μὲν πυκνότατον παλάμαισ ὡσ θεόν, καὶ τὰν πατρὸσ ἀντία Μήδειαν θεμέναν γάμον αὐτᾷ, ναὶ̈ σώτειραν Ἀργοῖ καὶ προπόλοισ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 13 14:1)
  • τὸ Λάχεσιν μὲν τὴν πρώτην εἶναι, Κλωθὼ δὲ τὴν δευτέραν, τὴν Ἄτροπον δὴ τρίτην σώτειραν τῶν λεχθέντων, ἀπῃκασμένα τῇ τῶν κλωσθέντων τῷ πυρὶ τὴν ἀμετάστροφον ἀπεργαζομένων δύναμιν· (Plato, Laws, book 12 136:5)
  • Ἀπόλλωνα δὲ καὶ Ἄρτεμιν Διονύσου καὶ Ἴσιοσ λέγουσι εἶναι παῖδασ, Λητοῦν δὲ τροφὸν αὐτοῖσι καὶ σώτειραν γενέσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 156 6:1)
  • Θησέα δὲ ἐλέγετο ἱδρύσασθαι καὶ ὀνομάσαι Σώτειραν, ἡνίκα Ἀστερίωνα τὸν Μίνω καταγωνισάμενοσ ἀνέστρεψεν ἐκ τῆσ Κρήτησ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 2:2)

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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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