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Ἀμφικτύονες

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀμφικτύονες Ἀμφικτύονων

Structure: Ἀμφικτυον (Stem) + ες (Ending)

Etym.: The word was orig. the same as a)mfikti/ones.

Sense

  1. the Amphictyons

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ τῶν μισθωτῶν δέ τισ ἦν ᾠδὴ τῶν ἐσ τοὺσ ἀγροὺσ φοιτώντων, ὡσ Τηλεκλείδησ φησὶν ἐν Ἀμφικτύοσιν καὶ βαλανέων ἄλλαι, ὡσ Κράτησ ἐν Τόλμαισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 10 3:2)
  • Φαυλίων δὲ μήλων μνημονεύει Τηλεκλείδησ ἐν Ἀμφικτύοσιν οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 231)
  • ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ τοῖσ Ἀμφικτύοσιν εἰσ Δελφοὺσ ὅτι τὰ χρήματα τοῦ θεοῦ βέλτιον εἰή κομισθῆναι πρὸσ αὐτόν ἢ γὰρ φυλάξειν ἀσφαλέστερον ἢ καὶ ἀποχρησάμενοσ ἀποδώσειν οὐκ ἐλάττω· (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 12 4:1)
  • Ἕτερον Δόγμα ἐπὶ ἱερέωσ Κλειναγόρου, ἐαρινῆσ πυλαίασ, ἔδοξε τοῖσ πυλαγόροισ καὶ τοῖσ συνέδροισ τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων καὶ τῷ κοινῷ τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων, ἐπειδὴ οἱ ἐξ Ἀμφίσσησ τὴν ἱερὰν χώραν κατανειμάμενοι γεωργοῦσι καὶ βοσκήματα νέμουσι, καὶ κωλυόμενοι τοῦτο ποιεῖν ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ παραγενόμενοι τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Ἑλλήνων συνέδριον κεκωλύκασι μετὰ βίασ, τινὰσ δὲ καὶ τετραυματίκασι, καὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν τὸν ᾑρημένον τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων Κόττυφον τὸν Ἀρκάδα πρεσβεῦσαι πρὸσ Φίλιππον τὸν Μακεδόνα, καὶ ἀξιοῦν ἵνα βοηθήσῃ τῷ τε Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ τοῖσ Ἀμφικτύοσιν, ὅπωσ μὴ περιίδῃ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀσεβῶν Ἀμφισσέων τὸν θεὸν πλημμελούμενον· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 228:1)
  • δὸσ δὴ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἥν, ὡσ οὐχ ὑπήκουον οἱ Θηβαῖοι, πέμπει πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ συμμάχουσ ὁ Φίλιπποσ, ἵν’ εἰδῆτε καὶ ἐκ ταύτησ σαφῶσ ὅτι τὴν μὲν ἀληθῆ πρόφασιν τῶν πραγμάτων, τὸ ταῦτ’ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ τοὺσ Θηβαίουσ καὶ ὑμᾶσ πράττειν, ἀπεκρύπτετο, κοινὰ δὲ καὶ τοῖσ Ἀμφικτύοσιν δόξαντα ποιεῖν προσεποιεῖτο· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 233:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Amphictyons

Related

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

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