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Μαραθών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μαραθών Μαραθῶνος

Structure: Μαραθων (Stem)

Sense

  1. Marathon, overgrown with fennel

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Μαραθών Μαραθῶνε Μαραθῶνες
Genitive Μαραθῶνος Μαραθώνοιν Μαραθώνων
Dative Μαραθῶνι Μαραθώνοιν Μαραθῶσιν*
Accusative Μαραθῶνα Μαραθῶνε Μαραθῶνας
Vocative Μαραθών Μαραθῶνε Μαραθῶνες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ ὁ Μαραθὼν καὶ ὁ Κυνέγειροσ, ὧν οὐκ ἄν τι ἄνευ γένοιτο. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:32)
  • στρατηγίαι δὲ αἱ μὲν Κάτωνοσ οὐδὲν ὡσ μεγάλοισ πράγμασι μέγα προσέθηκαν, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ Ἀριστείδου τὰ κάλλιστα καὶ λαμπρότατα καὶ πρῶτα τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἔργων ἐστίν, ὁ Μαραθών, ἡ Σαλαμίσ, αἱ Πλαταιαί. (Plutarch, Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato, chapter 5 1:1)
  • Μαραθὼν τὴν Μιλτιάδου Νίκην προπέμπει, καὶ Σαλαμὶσ τὴν Θεμιστοκλέουσ, χιλίων σκαφῶν ναυαγίοισ ἐπιβεβηκυῖαν. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 7 2:2)
  • Μαραθὼν τὴν Μιλτιάδου Νίκην προπέμπει, καὶ Σαλαμὶσ τὴν Θεμιστοκλέουσ, χιλίων· (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 7 5:2)
  • πικρὰν δὲ παῖσ ἐμὸσ τιμωρίαν κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν ηὑρ͂ε, κοὐκ ἀπήρκεσαν οὓσ πρόσθε Μαραθὼν βαρβάρων ἀπώλεσεν· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 5:2)
  • "τῶν δὲ ἐπέκεινα τοῦ Τανάιδοσ Ὁμάρτῃ βασιλεῖ Μαραθῶν θυγάτηρ ἦν ὄνομα Ὀδάτισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 354)

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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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