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γαίῃ (gaie)

γαίῃ is an Ancient Greek form of γαῖα, meaning “earth, land”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 101 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.428: πλῆξεν, ὁ δʼ ἀθρόος αὖθι πεσὼν ἐνερείσατο γαίῃ·

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 5.13.124: … , ἡ δὲ γῆ ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν μου ἐπιφέρει· αὐτὸς δ’ αὖ μέγαν αὖτις ἐπ’ οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται χρυσέῳ εἰνὶ θρόνῳ, γαίη δ’ ὑπὸ ποσσὶ βέβηκεν. χεῖρα δὲ δεξιτερὴν περὶ τέρμασιν ὠκεανοῖο ἐκτέτακεν, ὀρέων δὲ τρέμει βάσις ἔνδοθι θυμῷ …

All forms of γαῖα (declension table)

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.