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Βοιώτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βοιώτιος Βοιώτιη Βοιώτιον

Structure: Βοιωτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Boeotian, clownish

Examples

  • εἰ γάρ τισ ἔροιτο ὅντιν’ οὖν ἢ ποιητῶν ἢ ῥητόρων, τίνα σεμνότητα ἢ καλλιλογίαν ταῦτ’ ἔχει τὰ ὀνόματα ἃ ταῖσ Βοιωτίαισ κεῖται πόλεσιν Ὑρία καὶ Μυκαλησσὸσ καὶ Γραῖα καὶ Ἐτεωνὸσ καὶ Σκῶλοσ καὶ Θίσβη καὶ Ὀγχηστὸσ καὶ Εὔτρησισ καὶ τἆλλ’ ἐφεξῆσ ὧν ὁ ποιητὴσ μέμνηται, οὐδεὶσ ἂν εἰπεῖν οὐδ’ ἥντιν’ οὖν ἔχοι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1632)
  • τρίτον δὲ γενέσθαι Διόνυσόν φασιν ἐν Θήβαισ ταῖσ Βοιωτίαισ ἐκ Διὸσ καὶ Σεμέλησ τῆσ Κάδμου. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 64 3:1)

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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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