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Κρόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κρόνιος Κρόνιᾱ Κρόνιον

Structure: Κρονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Kro/nos

Sense

  1. Saturnian, of Cronus or Saturn
  2. his festival, Saturnalia;, of the Saturnalia
  3. the hill of Cronus or Saturn
  4. of the dark ages

Examples

  • αὖθισ ὁρῶ γελῶντά σε, ὦ καλὲ Κρόνιε, τὴν καταστροφὴν τοῦ δράματοσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 17:1)
  • Κρόνιε, πρύτανι Φρύγιε, γενέτα πάτερ, ἀνάξια τᾶσ Δαρδάνου γονᾶσ τάδ’ οἱᾶ πάσχομεν δέδορκασ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric2)
  • τί ποτέ μ’, ὦ Κρόνιε παῖ, τί ποτε ταῖσδ’ ἐνέζευξασ εὑρὼν ἁμαρτοῦσαν ἐν πημοναῖσιν; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, strophe 13)
  • ἀλλ’ ὦ Κρόνιε παῖ Ῥέασ, ἕδοσ Ὀλύμπου νέμων ἀέθλων τε κορυφὰν πόρον τ’ Ἀλφεοῦ, ἰανθεὶσ ἀοιδαῖσ εὔφρων ἄρουραν ἔτι πατρίαν σφίσιν κόμισον λοιπῷ γένει. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 2 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. his festival

  2. of the dark ages

Related

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

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