Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Φωκίς

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Principal Part: Φωκίς

Sense

  1. Phocis, Phocian

Examples

  • "τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἐν Μαραθῶνι μάχην ἄχρι νῦν Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ τὴν ἐν Λεύκτροισ Θηβαῖοι καὶ νὴ Δί’ ἡμεῖσ τὴν Δαϊφάντου περὶ Υἅμπολιν ἑορτάζομεν, ὡσ ἴστε, καὶ θυσιῶν καὶ τιμῶν ἡ Φωκὶσ ἐμπέπλησται· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 18 1:5)
  • Φωκὶσ μὲν ἡ γῆ κλῄζεται, σχιστὴ δ’ ὁδὸσ ἐσ ταὐτὸ Δελφῶν κἀπὸ Δαυλίασ ἄγει. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:6)
  • ἐπὶ μὲν δὴ Φώκου τούτου <ἡ> περὶ Τιθορέαν τε καὶ Παρνασσὸν ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Φωκίσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 5:2)
  • γῆ δὲ ἡ Φωκὶσ καὶ ὁδὸσ ἡ Σχιστὴ τοῦ πατρῴου φόνου τὸ μίασμα ὑπεδέξατο· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 6:6)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν Βοιωτίαν καὶ τὸν Ὀρχομενὸν ἡ Φωκίσ ἐστι πρὸσ ἄρκτον παραβεβλημένη τῇ Βοιωτίᾳ παραπλησίωσ ἀπὸ θαλάττησ εἰσ θάλατταν τό γε παλαιόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 3 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. Phocis

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

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