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Αἰγαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Αἰγαῖος Αἰγαῖη Αἰγαῖον

Structure: Αἰγαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Aegaean
  2. the Aegaean

Examples

  • πολλοὺσ δὲ πυρσεύσασ φλογερὸν σέλασ ἀμφιρύταν Εὔβοιαν εἷλ’ Ἀχαιῶν μονόκωποσ ἀνήρ, πέτραισ Καφηρίσιν ἐμβαλὼν Αἰγαίαισ τ’ ἐνάλοισ δόλιον ἀκταῖσ ἀστέρα λάμψασ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • Δίυλλοσ δ’ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐν τῇ ἐνάτῃ τῶν ἱστοριῶν φησιν ὡσ Κάσανδροσ ἐκ Βοιωτίασ ἐπανιὼν καὶ θάψασ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ τὴν βασίλισσαν ἐν Αἰγαίαισ καὶ μετ’ αὐτῶν τὴν Κύνναν τὴν Εὐρυδίκησ μητέρα καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ τιμήσασ οἷσ προσήκει καὶ μονομαχίασ ἀγῶνα ἔθηκεν, εἰσ ὃν κατέβησαν τέσσαρεσ τῶν στρατιωτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 41 4:2)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα βασιλικῶσ ἤδη διεξάγων τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν Εὐρυδίκην μὲν καὶ Φίλιππον τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ, ἔτι δὲ Κύνναν, ἣν ἀνεῖλεν Ἀλκέτασ, ἔθαψεν ἐν Αἰγαιαῖσ, καθάπερ ἔθοσ ἦν τοῖσ βασιλεῦσι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 52 5:1)

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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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