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Καύ̈στριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Καύ̈στριος Καύ̈στριᾱ Καύ̈στριον

Structure: Καϋστρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from the river Cayster

Examples

  • διεξιὼν δὲ τὸ Καύ̈στριον πεδίον, διέφθειρε τὴν χώραν τὴν ὑπὸ τοὺσ Πέρσασ οὖσαν, μέχρι ὅτου κατήντησεν εἰσ Κύμην. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 79 4:1)
  • πορευόμενοι δὲ παρὰ ποταμὸν Καύ̈στριον, ἐνθεῦτεν ἐπείτε ὑπερβάντεσ τὸν Τμῶλον ἀπίκοντο, αἱρέουσι Σάρδισ οὐδενόσ σφι ἀντιωθέντοσ, αἱρέουσι δὲ χωρὶσ τῆσ ἀκροπόλιοσ τἆλλα πάντα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 100 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. of or from the river Cayster

Related

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

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