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Ἀχέρων

Third declension Noun; Masculine 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀχέρων

Structure: Ἀχεροντ (Stem)

Etym.: a)/xos

Sense

  1. Acheron, river of woe

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ὁ τῆσ γενέσεωσ ποταμὸσ οὕτωσ ἐνδελεχῶσ ῥέων οὔποτε στήσεται, καὶ πάλιν ὁ ἐξ ἐναντίασ αὐτῷ ὁ τῆσ φθορᾶσ εἴτ’ Ἀχέρων εἴτε Κωκυτὸσ καλούμενοσ ὑπὸ τῶν ποιητῶν, ἡ πρώτη οὖν αἰτία ἡ δείξασα ἡμῖν τὸ τοῦ ἡλίου φῶσ, ἡ αὐτὴ καὶ τὸν ζοφερὸν Αἵδην ἄγει. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 10 8:1)
  • καὶ τὸ ἀειδὲσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἄχρωστον Αἵδησ καὶ Ἀχέρων ἐπίκλησιν ἔσχεν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 9 4:1)
  • ἔνθα μὲν εἰσ Αἴδαο καταιβάτισ ἐστὶ κέλευθοσ, ἄκρη τε προβλὴσ Ἀχερουσιὰσ ὑψόθι τείνει, δινήεισ τ’ Ἀχέρων αὐτὴν διὰ νειόθι τέμνων ἄκρην ἐκ μεγάλησ προχοὰσ ἱήσι φάραγγοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:18)
  • τυγχάνει δ’ ἄρα ὄντα ἐν τούτοισ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ τέτταρ’ ἄττα ῥεύματα, ὧν τὸ μὲν μέγιστον καὶ ἐξωτάτω ῥέον περὶ κύκλῳ ὁ καλούμενοσ Ὠκεανόσ ἐστιν, τούτου δὲ καταντικρὺ καὶ ἐναντίωσ ῥέων Ἀχέρων, ὃσ δι’ ἐρήμων τε τόπων ῥεῖ ἄλλων καὶ δὴ καὶ ὑπὸ γῆν ῥέων εἰσ τὴν λίμνην ἀφικνεῖται τὴν Ἀχερουσιάδα, οὗ αἱ τῶν τετελευτηκότων ψυχαὶ τῶν πολλῶν ἀφικνοῦνται καί τινασ εἱμαρμένουσ χρόνουσ μείνασαι, αἱ μὲν μακροτέρουσ, αἱ δὲ βραχυτέρουσ, πάλιν ἐκπέμπονται εἰσ τὰσ τῶν ζῴων γενέσεισ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 904:2)
  • οὐ χωρεῖ νῆα τόσην Ἀχέρων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3915)

Related

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

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