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Ἀδρίας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀδρίας

Structure: Ἀδρι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Adriatic

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἵ τε γὰρ ἄνεμοι ταράσσουσιν αὐτὴν ἀμφοτέρωθεν τὸ κῦμα ἐπάγοντεσ ἐκ τοῦ Ἀδρίου καὶ ἐξ ἑτέρου πελάγουσ ὃ καλεῖται Τυρσηνόν, ἤν τε καὶ ἀνέμων ἀπῇ πνεύματα, ὁ δὲ καὶ τηνικαῦτα ὁ πορθμὸσ κίνησιν βιαιοτάτην αὐτὸσ ἐξ αὑτοῦ καὶ ἰσχυρὰσ παρέχεται παλιρροίασ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 6:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ Ἀδρίου τὸ μὲν πέλαγοσ δυοῖν νυξὶ καὶ ἡμέρᾳ διήλθομεν, ἀψοφητὶ παραπέμποντοσ τοῦ ῥεύματοσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 16:2)
  • τῆσ δ’ Ιἄσονοσ καὶ τῶν ἐπιδιωξάντων Κόλχων καὶ μέχρι τῆσ Κρήτησ καὶ τῆσ Ἰταλίασ καὶ τοῦ Ἀδρίου, ὧν ἔνια καὶ ὁ Καλλίμαχοσ ἐπισημαίνεται, τοτὲ μὲν "Αἰγλήτην Ἀνάφην τε Λακωνίδι γείτονα Θήρῃ" λέγων "ἄρχμενοσ, ὡσ ἡρ́ωεσ ἀπ’ Αἰήταο Κυταίου αὖτισ ἐσ ἀρχαίην ἔπλεον Αἱμονίην," τοτὲ δὲ περὶ τῶν Κόλχων "οἳ μὲν ἐπ’ Ἰλλυριοῖο πόρου σχάσσαντεσ ἐρετμὰ "λᾶα πάρα ξανθῆσ Ἁρμονίησ τάφιον ἄστυρον ἐκτίσσαντο, τό κεν φυγάδων τισ ἐνίσποι Γραικόσ, ἀτὰρ κείνων "γλῶσσ’ ὀνόμηνε Πόλασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 78:6)
  • " τινὲσ δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἴστρον ἀναπλεῦσαί φασι μέχρι πολλοῦ τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Ιἄσονα, οἱ δὲ καὶ μέχρι τοῦ Ἀδρίου· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 78:7)
  • τοῦ τε Ἀδρίου καὶ τὰ ἀρκτικὰ καὶ τὰ ἔσχατα διεξιὼν οὐδενὸσ ἀπέχεται μυθώδουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 4:3)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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