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Μούσαις (Mousais)

Μούσαις is an Ancient Greek form of Μοῦσα, meaning “Mousa — a Muse, goddess of the arts”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 103 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.25: … Μιθραδάτης ὁ Πέρσης ἀνδριάντα Πλάτωνος ἀνέθετο εἰς τὴν Ἀκαδήμειαν καὶ ἐπέγραψε· Μιθραδάτης Ὀροντοβάτου Πέρσης Μούσαις εἰκόνα ἀνέθηκε Πλάτωνος, ἣν Σιλανίων ἐποίησε.

Euripides, Hippolytus 452: ἔχουσιν αὐτοί τ’ εἰσὶν ἐν μούσαις ἀεί,

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.