Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Θῆβαι • ‎(Thêbai) f ‎(genitive Θηβῶν); first declension

1. Thebes, the name of a city in Boeotia and the name of another city in Egypt
   • 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.

Inflection

The name of the Egyptian city is sometimes singular in verse.

Derived terms

• Θήβησι ‎(Thḗbēsi)
• Θήβαζε ‎(Thḗbaze)
• Θηβαῖος ‎(Thēbaîos)
• Θηβαγενής ‎(Thēbagenḗs)
• Θηβαϊκός ‎(Thēbaïkós)
• Θηβαΐς ‎(Thēbaḯs)

Descendants

References

• Θῆβαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Θῆβαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Θῆβαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Θῆβαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,027