Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Κίσσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κίσσιος Κίσσιᾱ Κίσσιον

Structure: Κισσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from Cissia, Cissian

Examples

  • καὶ τὸ Κισσίων πόλισμ’ ἀντίδουπον ᾄσεται, ὀᾶ, τοῦτ’ ἔποσ γυναικοπλη‐ θὴσ ὅμιλοσ ἀπύων, βυσσίνοισ δ’ ἐν πέπλοισ πέσῃ λακίσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 51)
  • ἀπὸ Σούσων δὲ καὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ Κισσίων χώρησ τριηκόσια· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 91 5:3)
  • Κισσίων δὲ ἦρχε Ἀνάφησ ὁ Ὀτάνεω. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 62 3:2)
  • ὑπῆρχον δὲ καὶ Μήδων καὶ Κισσίων καὶ Καδουσίων καὶ Καρμανῶν οἱ πάντεσ εἰσ πεντακισχιλίουσ, οἷσ ἀκούειν Ἀσπασιανοῦ προσετέτακτο τοῦ Μήδου. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 79 7:1)

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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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