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Ἄσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἄσιος Ἄσιη Ἄσιον

Structure: Ἀσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Asian

Examples

  • μάλιστα δὲ γνώριμοι γεγόνασι τῶν νομάδων οἱ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἀφελόμενοι τὴν Βακτριανήν, Ἄσιοι καὶ Πασιανοὶ καὶ Τόχαροι καὶ Σακάραυλοι, ὁρμηθέντεσ ἀπὸ τῆσ περαίασ τοῦ Ιἀξάρτου τῆσ κατὰ Σάκασ καὶ Σογδιανούσ, ἣν κατεῖχον Σάκαι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 8 4:4)

Synonyms

  1. Asian

Related

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

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