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Φαῖαξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Φαῖαξ Φαίακος

Structure: Φαιακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Phaeacian

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

  • τὸ δ’ ὅλον τὸ πρὸσ τὰ τοιαῦτα νενευκὸσ τοῖσ μνηστῆρσι καὶ τοῖσ Φαίαξιν ἔνειμεν, ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ Νέστορι οὐδὲ Μενελάῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 91)
  • ἀπαλλαγέντων δὲ τῶν δειπνούντων αἱ τράπεζαι ἐβαστάζοντο, ὥσπερ παρὰ τοῖσ μνηστῆρσι καὶ τοῖσ Φαίαξιν, ἐφ’ ὧν καὶ λέγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:19)
  • ὁ δὲ Μεγακλείδησ φησὶ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα καθομιλοῦντα τοὺσ καιροὺσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ δοκεῖν ὁμοήθη τοῖσ Φαίαξιν εἶναι τὸ ἁβροδίαιτον αὐτῶν ἀσπάζεσθαι, προπυθόμενον τοῦ Ἀλκίνου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 7 1:3)
  • "ὅθεν Ὅμηροσ οὐ μόνον τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἰχθύων ἀπεχομένουσ πεποίηκε παρὰ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον στρατοπεδεύοντασ, ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ἁβροβίοισ Φαίαξιν οὐδὲ τοῖσ ἀσώτοισ μνηστῆρσιν, ἀμφοτέροισ οὖσι νησιώταισ, θαλάττιον παρατέθεικεν ὄψον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 18:16)
  • Ὀδυσσεῖ δὲ ὑπῆρξε παρ’ Ἀθηνᾶσ ἐν Ἀλκινόου καὶ Φαίαξιν ἐπιδείξασθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:7)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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