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Was Exceeding Wroth

    Figure 1:   Homer Simpson "disciplining" his son, Bart.  Learning dead languages is difficult, which is why I like to draw pictures so as to aid me in this endeavour.

The Ancient Greek word for:

‘rage,’

or:

‘wrath’

or:

‘divine anger’

is the 1st-declension feminine noun:

ἡ μῆνις [1].

or:

‘hē mē̃nis’[2].

.

The morphology of:

ἡ μῆνις

or:

‘hē mē̃nis’

is as follows:

The Ancient-Greek 1st-declension feminine noun: ἡ μῆνις or: hē mē̃nis:
  Singular: Dual: Plural:
Nominative: ἡ μῆνις τὼ μήνιε αἱ μήνιες
Genitive: τῆς μήνιος τοῖν μηνίοιν τῶν μηνίων
Dative: τῇ μήνῑ τοῖν μηνίοιν ταῖς μήνισι(ν)
Accusative: τὴν μῆνιν τὼ μήνιε τᾱ̀ς μήνῑς / μήνιας
Vocative: μήνῑ μήνιε μήνιες

The Ancient-Greek word:

ἡ μῆνις

is the first word of Homer's Illiad:

μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ

...

mē̃nin áeide theà

...

, which means:

"Sing, O godess, the anger"

...

You can view The Illiad in the original Greek at wikisource.


[1].  Genitive = τῆς μήνῐος .

[2].  Genitive = ‘tē̃s mḗnios.’

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