The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.
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Thebes
//θiːbz//
Synonyms for "thebes"
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Translations
48 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- Θῆβαι name (city in Greece)
- Θῆβαι name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Arabic
1 entries- طِيبَة name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Armenian
2 entries- Թեբե name (city in Greece)
- Թեբե name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Catalan
2 entries- Tebes name (city in Greece)
- Tebes name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Czech
2 entries- Théby name (city in Greece)
- Théby name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Danish
2 entries- Theben name (city in Greece)
- Theben name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Dutch
2 entries- Thebe name (city in Greece)
- Thebe name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Egyptian
1 entries- wAs-t:N24 name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Esperanto
4 entries- Tebo name (city in Greece)
- Tebo name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
- Teboj name (city in Greece)
- Teboj name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
French
2 entries- Thèbes name (city in Greece)
- Thèbes name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Georgian
2 entries- თებე name (city in Greece)
- თებე name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
German
2 entries- Theben name (city in Greece)
- Theben name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Hindi
1 entries- थेब्स name (city in Greece)
Hungarian
2 entries- Théba name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
- Thébai name (city in Greece)
Italian
2 entries- Tebe name (city in Greece)
- Tebe name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Latin
2 entries- Thēbae name (city in Greece)
- Thēbae name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Mycenaean Greek
1 entries- 𐀳𐀣 name (city in Greece)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- تبه name (city in Greece)
- تیبه name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Polish
2 entries- Teby name (city in Greece)
- Teby name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Portuguese
2 entries- Tebas name (city in Greece)
- Tebas name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Russian
2 entries- Фи́вы name (city in Greece)
- Фи́вы name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Slovak
2 entries- Téby name (city in Greece)
- Téby name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Spanish
2 entries- Tebas name (city in Greece)
- Tebas name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
Turkish
4 entries- Teb name (ancient city in Upper Egypt)
- Tebai name (city in Greece)
- İstefa name (city in Greece)
- İstefe name (city in Greece)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Make me a conqueror of all nations; let the famous chariot carry me all the way from the sun to Thebes in triumph: I will consider myself human even when I am hailed everywhere as a god.
Source: tatoeba (3301609)
What art thou that hast come to glorious Thebes?
Source: tatoeba (5095353)
Make me vanquisher of all the nations; build me a chariot bearing me in triumph all the way to Thebes: I will consider myself a mere man, when I am all around hailed as a god.
Source: tatoeba (9131500)
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