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Κάριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κάριος Κάριᾱ Κάριον

Structure: Καρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = Kariko/s, Hdt.

Sense

Examples

  • καὶ ἡ γῆ ἐν κύκλῳ τοῦ λιμένοσ Καρία κλῄζεται. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 24 5:4)
  • μεταβάλλειν τέ φησιν οὐ μόνον τὰ πικρὰ τῶν ὑδάτων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἁλυκὸν καὶ ὅλουσ ποταμούσ, καθὰ τὸν ἐν Καρίᾳ, παρ’ ᾧ Ζηνοποσειδῶνοσ ἱερόν ἐστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 3:2)
  • τούτοισ δὲ καὶ οἱ Κᾶρεσ χρῶνται ἐν τοῖσ θρήνοισ, εἰ μὴ ἄρα καὶ ἡ Καρία Φοινίκη ἐκαλεῖτο, ὡσ παρὰ Κορίννῃ καὶ Βακχυλίδῃ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 761)
  • παῖδεσ κρατίστου Πανὸσ ἐξωλέστατοι, ἐγὼ μὲν ὑμῖν, ὡσ ὁρᾶτε, στρηνιῶ δεῖπνον γὰρ οὔτ’ ἐν Καρίᾳ, μὰ τοὺσ θεούσ, οὔτ’ ἐν Ῥόδῳ τοιοῦτον οὔτ’ ἐν Λυδίᾳ κατέχω δεδειπνηκώσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 15 3:1)
  • πούλυποι ἔν τε Θάσῳ καὶ Καρίᾳ εἰσὶν ἄριστοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 107 1:2)

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

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