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Ἀμφικτυονίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀμφικτυονίς

Structure: Ἀμφικτυονιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a state in the Amphictyonic League
  2. a meeting-place of the Amphictyonic Council

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ Φοίνικοσ ποταμοῦ καὶ Θερμοπυλέων κώμη τε ἐστὶ τῇ οὔνομα Ἀνθήλη κεῖται, παρ’ ἣν δὴ παραρρέων ὁ Ἀσωπὸσ ἐσ θάλασσαν ἐκδιδοῖ, καὶ χῶροσ περὶ αὐτὴν εὐρύσ, ἐν τῷ Δήμητρόσ τε ἱρὸν Ἀμφικτυονίδοσ ἵδρυται καὶ ἕδραι εἰσὶ Ἀμφικτύοσι καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἀμφικτύονοσ ἱρόν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 200 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a state in the Amphictyonic League

  2. a meeting-place of the Amphictyonic Council

    • Πυλαία (the autumn-meeting of the Amphictyons at Pylae, the Amphictyonic Council)

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

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