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Ἴων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἴων Ἴωνος

Structure: Ἰων (Stem)

Sense

  1. one of the Ionians
  2. an inhabitant of Ionia

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

  • βασιλεῦ τᾶν ἱερᾶν Ἀθανᾶν, τῶν ἁβροβίων ἄναξ Ιὤνων, τί νέον ἔκλαγε χαλκοκώδων σάλπιγξ πολεμηί̈αν ἀοιδάν; (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 18 1:1)
  • ἀπολογούμενοσ δὲ πρὸσ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ οὐκ Ιὤνων ἔφη προξενεῖν οὐδὲ Θεσσαλῶν, πλουσίων ὄντων, ὥσπερ ἑτέρουσ, ἵνα θεραπεύωνται καὶ λαμβάνωσιν, ἀλλὰ Λακεδαιμονίων, μιμούμενοσ καὶ ἀγαπῶν τὴν παρ’ αὐτοῖσ εὐτέλειαν καὶ σωφροσύνην, ἧσ οὐδένα προτιμᾶν πλοῦτον, ἀλλὰ πλουτίζων ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων τὴν πόλιν ἀγάλλεσθαι. (Plutarch, , chapter 14 3:1)
  • δεόμεθα οὖν καὶ μαρτυρόμεθα, εἰ μὴ πείσομεν, ὅτι ἐπιβουλευόμεθα μὲν ὑπὸ Ιὤνων ἀεὶ πολεμίων, προδιδόμεθα δὲ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν Δωριεῖσ Δωριέων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 48 2:5)
  • "καὶ Ἀριστοφάνησ Τριφάλητι παρακωμῳδῶν πολλοὺσ τῶν ’ Ιὤνων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:65)
  • "τὰ δὲ τῶν Ιὤνων ἰοβαφῆ καὶ πορφυρᾶ καὶ κρόκινα ῥόμβοισ ὑφαντά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:71)

Synonyms

  1. one of the Ionians

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