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Ἴλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἴλιος Ἴλιᾱ Ἴλιον

Structure: Ἰλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Ilian, Trojan

Examples

  • παπαὶ τῶν ἐπαίνων, Ὅμηρε, καὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων, Ἴλιοσ ἱρὴ καὶ εὐρυάγυια καὶ ἐϋκτίμεναι Κλεωναί. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 23:14)
  • τί δῆτα χρῄζεισ ὧν κέκευθεν Ἴλιοσ; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:9)
  • λέλαμπεν Ἴλιοσ, Περ‐ γάμων τε πυρὶ καταίθεται τέραμνα καὶ πόλισ ἄκρα τε τειχέων. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric5)
  • τῷ δὲ μάλιστ’ ἂρ ἐήν ἐναλίγκιον, ὡσ εἰ ἅπασα Ἴλιοσ ὀφρυόεσσα πυρὶ σμύχοιτο κατ’ ἄκρησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1897)
  • μάλα γάρ σφιν ἀπήχθετο Ἴλιοσ ἱρὴ καὶ Πρίαμοσ καὶ λαὸσ ἐυμμελίω Πριάμοιο· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 71:4)

Synonyms

  1. Ilian

Related

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

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