Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • οὐδεὶσ ἀνὴρ εὔψυχοσ ἀξιοῖ λάθρᾳ κτεῖναι τὸν ἐχθρόν, ἀλλ’ ἰὼν κατὰ στόμα. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:15)
  • εἰ γάρ τοι, ἔφη, τῇ πνοῇ τῶν ἰών τε καὶ ῥόδων χαίρουσιν, ὑπὸ τῇ ῥινὶ μάλιστα ἐχρῆν αὐτοὺσ στέφεσθαι παρ’ αὐτὴν ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε τὴν ἀναπνοήν, ἵν’ ὡσ πλεῖστον ἀνέσπων τῆσ ἡδονῆσ. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 32:3)
  • παῖσ ὢν ἐτόλμησ’ εὐθὺσ οὐ πρὸσ ἡδονὰσ Μουσῶν τραπέσθαι πρὸσ τὸ μαλθακὸν βίου, ἀγροὺσ δὲ ναίων, σκληρὰ τῇ φύσει διδοὺσ ἔχαιρε πρὸσ τἀνδρεῖον, ἔσ τ’ ἄγρασ ἰὼν ἵπποισ τε χαίρων τόξα τ’ ἐντείνων χεροῖν, πόλει παρασχεῖν σῶμα χρήσιμον θέλων. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:2)
  • λόγοσ γὰρ ἔκ τ’ ἀδοξούντων ἰὼν κἀκ τῶν δοκούντων αὑτὸσ οὐ ταὐτὸν σθένει. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:25)
  • ἢ φορτί’ ἕτερ’ ἐνθένδ’ ἐκεῖσ’ ἄξεισ ἰών; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. one of the Ionians

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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