Θῆβαι
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Ancient Greek [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (5th BC Attic): IPA: /tʰɛ́͜ɛbă͜ɪ̆/
- (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /tʰéːbɛ/
- (4th AD Koine): IPA: /θíβe/
- (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /θíve/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /θíve/
Proper noun [edit]
Θῆβαι (genitive Θηβῶν) f, first declension; (Thēbai)
- Thebes, the name of a city in Boeotia and the name of another city in Egypt
- 7th, 8th century BC, Homer, Iliad, 6.222-223
- Τυδέα δ᾽ οὐ μέμνημαι, ἐπεί μ᾽ ἔτι τυτθὸν ἐόντα / κάλλιφ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἐν Θήβῃσιν ἀπώλετο λαὸς Ἀχαιῶν.
- 1990 translation by Robert Fagles
- My father, Tydeus, I really don't remember. I was just a baby when father left me then, that time an Achaean army went to die at Thebes.
- 1990 translation by Robert Fagles
- Τυδέα δ᾽ οὐ μέμνημαι, ἐπεί μ᾽ ἔτι τυτθὸν ἐόντα / κάλλιφ᾽, ὅτ᾽ ἐν Θήβῃσιν ἀπώλετο λαὸς Ἀχαιῶν.
- 7th, 8th century BC, Homer, Iliad, 6.222-223
Inflection [edit]
Inflection
The name of the Egyptian city is sometimes singular in verse.
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