Μούσης (Mouses)

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

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.4: Τὸν δὲ Λίνον παῖδα εἶναι Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Μούσης Οὐρανίας· ποιῆσαι δὲ κοσμογονίαν, ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης πορείαν, καὶ ζῴων καὶ καρπῶν γενέσεις. τούτῳ ἀρχὴ τῶν ποι …

Plutarch, Cicero 2.3: … ται, Πόντιος Γλαῦκος, ἐν τετραμέτρῳ πεποιημένον. προϊὼν δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ καί ποικιλώτερον ἁπτόμενος τῆς περὶ ταῦτα μούσης, ἔδοξεν οὐ μόνον ῥήτωρ, ἀλλὰ καί ποιητὴς ἄριστος εἶναι Ῥωμαίων.

Hesiod, Works and Days 658: τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ Μούσῃς Ἑλικωνιάδεσσʼ ἀνέθηκα,

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.