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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

  • παρῆν μὲν ὄχλοσ πᾶσ Ἀχαιικοῦ στρατοῦ πλήρησ πρὸ τύμβου σῆσ κόρησ ἐπὶ σφαγάσ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:3)
  • Ἑκάβη, πυκνὰσ γὰρ οἶσθά μ’ ἐσ Τροίαν ὁδοὺσ ἐλθόντα κήρυκ’ ἐξ Ἀχαιικοῦ στρατοῦ, ἐγνωσμένοσ δὲ καὶ πάροιθέ σοι, γύναι, Ταλθύβιοσ ἥκω καινὸν ἀγγελῶν λόγον. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests5)
  • ἁνὴρ ἄφαντοσ ἐξ Ἀχαιικοῦ στρατοῦ, αὐτόσ τε καὶ τὸ πλοῖον. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 4:8)
  • ἦ οὐκ Ἄργεοσ ἠε͂ν Ἀχαιικοῦ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 7:20)
  • ἦ οὐκ Ἄργεοσ ἠε͂ν Ἀχαιικοῦ, ἀλλά πῃ ἄλλῃ πλάζετ’ ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπουσ, ὁ δὲ θαρσήσασ κατέπεφνε; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 24:11)

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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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