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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

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

  • "εἰ δέ τισ ἢ τύραννον ἀπέκτεινε Μιλτιάδην ἐν Χερρονήσῳ πρότερον, ἢ Κίμωνα συνόντα τῇ ἀδελφῇ διώξασ εἷλεν, ἢ Θεμιστοκλέουσ ἐφ’ οἷσ ἀσελγαίνων ἐκώμαζε καὶ ὕβριζε δι’ ἀγορᾶσ ἀφείλετο τὴν πόλιν, ὡσ ὕστερον Ἀλκιβιάδου, γραψάμενοσ, ἆρ’ οὐκ ἂν ἀπωλώλεσαν ἡμῖν οἱ Μαραθῶνεσ οἱ Εὐρυμέδοντεσ τὸ καλὸν Ἀρτεμίσιον ὅθι παῖδεσ Ἀθηναίων ἐβάλοντο φαεννὰν κρηπῖδ’ ἐλευθερίασ; (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 614)

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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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