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Ἑλλησποντίας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑλλησποντίας

Structure: Ἑλλησποντι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: sc. a)/nemos

Sense

  1. a wind blowing from the Hellespont, from the N. E.

Examples

  • τὸν αὐτὸν ἐξήντλησαν ὡσ ἐγὼ βίον τούτοισ γὰρ οἰκείωσ ἄν τισ ταῦτα συνάψειε ποῦ γὰρ τὰ σεμνὰ κεῖνα, ποῦ δὲ Λυδίασ μέγασ δυνάστησ Κροῖσοσ ἢ Ξέρξησ βαρὺν ζεύξασ θαλάσσησ αὐχέν’ Ἑλλησποντίασ; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 15 17:1)

Related

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

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