Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From ἶφι (îphi, by force or might, Epic adverb) +‎ γίγνομαι (gígnomai, come into being) +‎ -ειᾰ (-eia). See also Ἰφιγόνη (Iphigónē).

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Ῑ̓φῐγένειᾰ (Īphigéneiaf (genitive Ῑ̓φῐγενείᾱς); first declension

  1. strong-born, mighty (an epithet of Artemis)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Pausanias to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hesychius of Alexandria to this entry?)
  2. (Greek mythology) Iphigenia (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Stesichorus to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Pindar to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sophocles to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Lycophron to this entry?)
    • 458 BC, Aeschylus (aut.), H.W. Smyth (ed., tr.), Ἀγαμέμνων in Aeschylus…in two volumes II: Agamemnon (1926), ll. 1,521–1,530:
      οὔτ᾽ ἀνελεύθερον οἶμαι θάνατον // τῷδε γενέσθαι. // οὐδὲ γὰρ οὗτος δολίαν ἄτην // οἴκοισιν ἔθηκ᾽; // ἀλλ᾽ ἐμὸν ἐκ τοῦδ᾽ ἔρνος ἀερθέν. // τὴν πολυκλαύτην Ἰφιγενείαν, // ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων // μηδὲν ἐν Ἅιδου μεγαλαυχείτω, // ξιφοδηλήτῳ, // θανάτῳ τείσας ἅπερ ἦρξεν.
      [Neither do I think he met an ignoble death.] And did he not himself by treachery bring ruin on his house? Yet, as he has suffered — worthy prize of worthy deed — for what he did to my sweet flower, shoot sprung from him, the sore-wept Iphigenia, let him make no great boasts in the halls of Hades, since with death dealt him by the sword he has paid for what he first began. ― tr. ibidem

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References

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  • ἰφῐγένειᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ἰφιγένεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Ἰφιγένεια”, 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014

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