Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ἄσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἄσιος Ἄσιη Ἄσιον

Structure: Ἀσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Asian

Examples

  • περὶ δὲ τῆσ Σαμίων τρυφῆσ Δοῦρισ ἱστορῶν παρατίθεται Ἀσίου ποιήματα, ὅτι ἐφόρουν χλιδῶνασ περὶ τοῖσ βραχίοσιν καὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἄγοντεσ τῶν ̔ Ἡραίων ἐβάδιζον κατεκτενισμένοι τὰσ κόμασ ἐπὶ τὸ μετάφρενον καὶ τοὺσ ὤμουσ, τὸ δὲ νόμιμον τοῦτο μαρτυρεῖσθαι καὶ ὑπὸ παροιμίασ τῆσδε βαδίζειν εἰσ Ἡραῖον ἐμπεπλεγμένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:82)
  • "ἐστὶ δὲ τὰ τοῦ Ἀσίου ἔπη οὕτωσ ἔχοντα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:83)
  • ποῦ κεῖται ὁ κνισολοιχὸσ καὶ τίνα ἐστὶ τὰ τοῦ Ἀσίου ἔπη τὰ περὶ τοῦ κνισοκόλακοσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 99 3:3)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν τοῦ Ἀσίου, ἔφη ὁ Μυρτίλοσ, ἔπη ταῦτ’ ἐστί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 99 3:4)
  • περὶ δὲ τῆσ Σαμίων τρυφῆσ Δοῦρισ ἱστορῶν παρατίθεται Ἀσίου ποιήματα, ὅτι ἐφόρουν χλίδωνασ περὶ τοῖσ βραχίοσι, κτλ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section4)

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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