Μούσας (Mousas)

Μούσας is an Ancient Greek form of Μοῦσα, meaning “Mousa — a Muse, goddess of the arts”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Μούσα, “Mousa — an important mercantile town on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea, not far north of the Straits…”.

Found 91 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.45: … όσον οἶνον ἄκρητον ἀφειδῶς ἔσπασας, ὥστε φρενῶν ἐκτὸς ὄλισθες ἑῶν; οἰκτείρω σʼ οὐ τόσσον ἐπεὶ θάνες, ἀλλʼ ὅτι Μούσας ὕβρισας οὐ μετρίῃ χρησάμενος κύλικι. Γεγόνασι δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι τρεῖς Ἀρκεσίλαοι· ποιητὴς ἀρχαίας κωμῳδίας, ἄλλος …

Euripides, Alcestis 962: ἐγὼ καὶ διὰ μούσας

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.