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μῆτιν (metin)

μῆτιν is an Ancient Greek form of μῆτις, meaning “cunning, craft, wisdom”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.423: πείσματα σὴν διὰ μῆτιν· ἐπιπνεύσειε δʼ ἀήτης

Hesiod, Theogony 886: Ζεὺς δὲ θεῶν βασιλεὺς πρώτην ἄλοχον θέτο Μῆτιν

Pindar, Olympian 13.50: μῆτίν τε γαρύων παλαιγόνων

All forms of μῆτις (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.