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Ἀχαιικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀχαιικός

Structure: Ἀχαιικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: axaio/s

Sense

  1. of or for the Achaians, Achaian

Examples

  • ἐλθὼν δ’ εἰσ Ἀχαιικὸν στρατὸν παρηγόρησον, ὡσ ἀποκτείνειν φθόνοσ γυναῖκασ, ἃσ τὸ πρῶτον οὐκ ἐκτείνατε βωμῶν ἀποσπάσαντεσ, ἀλλ’ ᾠκτίρατε. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:22)
  • καὶ τῶνδε κληδὼν ἐσ στράτευμ’ Ἀχαιϊκὸν ἐλθοῦσ’ ἀπώλεσέν μ’· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 2:12)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκ λόγου γὰρ ἄλλοσ ἐκβαίνει λόγοσ, τίν’ αὖ δέδορκα τόνδ’ Ἀχαιϊκὸν λάτριν στείχοντα καινῶν ἄγγελον βουλευμάτων; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 3:18)
  • ὁ γὰρ δὴ πολλὰ μοχθήσασ ἐγὼ Μενέλαόσ εἰμι καὶ στράτευμ’ Ἀχαιϊκόν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode2)
  • τὸν μέγαν Ἀκροκόρινθον Ἀχαιικὸν, Ἑλλάδοσ ἄστρον, καὶ διπλῆν Ἰσθμοῦ σύνδρομον ἠιόνα Λεύκιοσ ἐστυφέλιξε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2971)

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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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