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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

  • ἀλλ’ ἦ Κρονίου Πανὸσ τρομερᾷ μάστιγι φοβῇ; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, anapests2)
  • ἡμέρᾳ μὲν οὖν ὀγδόῃ λέγεται Κρονίου μηνόσ, ὃν νῦν Ἑκατομβαιῶνα καλοῦσι, κατελθεῖν. (Plutarch, chapter 12 1:2)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ καλὰ δένδρε’ ἔθαλλεν χῶροσ ἐν βάσσαισ Κρονίου Πέλοποσ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 3 9:1)
  • ἵκοντο δ’ ὑψηλοῖο πέτραν ἀλίβατον Κρονίου· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 21:1)
  • δύο μὲν Κρονίου πὰρ τεμένει, παῖ, σέ τ’ ἐνόσφισε καὶ Πουλυτιμίδαν κλᾶροσ προπετὴσ ἄνθε’ Ὀλυμπιάδοσ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 6 19:1)

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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