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Δαρεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Δαρεῖος Δαρεῖη Δαρεῖον

Structure: Δαρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Darius, dara, a king.

Examples

  • Τότε οἱ τακτικοὶ καὶ οἱ σατράπαι παρέστησαν τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ. Δαρεῖε βασιλεῦ, εἰσ τοὺσ αἰῶνασ ζῆθι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 6:6)
  • τί οὖν, ἄναξ Δαρεῖε, ποῖ καταστρέφεισ λόγων τελευτήν; (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 1:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ Δαρεῖον ὁ τῇ βασιλικῇ καὶ τρυφώσῃ πάλιν παιδευθεὶσ παιδείᾳ Ξέρξησ ‐ "ὦ Δαρεῖε," εἰπεῖν ἐστιν δικαιότατον ἴσωσ, "ὃσ τὸ Κύρου κακὸν οὐκ ἔμαθεσ, ἐθρέψω δὲ Ξέρξην ἐν τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ ἤθεσιν ἐν οἷσπερ Κῦροσ Καμβύσην" ‐ ὁ δέ, ἅτε τῶν αὐτῶν παιδειῶν γενόμενοσ ἔκγονοσ, παραπλήσια ἀπετέλεσεν τοῖσ Καμβύσου παθήμασιν· (Plato, Laws, book 3 117:2)

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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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