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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

  • πρῴην δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναίοισ συμμαχήσασ οὕτωσ ἠρίστευσα Μαραθῶνι, ὥστε καὶ ἀριστεῖον ᾑρέθη μοι, τὸ ὑπὸ τῇ ἀκροπόλει σπήλαιον. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 6:5)
  • ταῦτα πῶσ εἰκότα, γέροντ’ ἀπολέσαι πολιὸν ἄνδρα περὶ κλεψύδραν, πολλὰ δὴ ξυμπονήσαντα καὶ θερμὸν ἀπομορξάμενον ἀνδρικὸν ἱδρῶτα δὴ καὶ πολύν, ἄνδρ’ ἀγαθὸν ὄντα Μαραθῶνι περὶ τὴν πόλιν; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, antistrophe1)
  • εἶτα Μαραθῶνι μὲν ὅτ’ ἦμεν ἐδιώκομεν, νῦν δ’ ὑπ’ ἀνδρῶν πονηρῶν σφόδρα διωκόμεθα, κᾆτα προσαλισκόμεθα. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, antistrophe2)
  • πρὸσ Ἀριστομάχην δὲ χρόνου πολλοῦ, πρὸσ ἐκείνην τὴν Μαραθῶνι, καὶ Ξτρατονίκην ὑμῶν οὐδεὶσ οὐδ’ ἐγχειρεῖ πολεμίζειν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parabasis, parabasis14)
  • Ἡράκλεισ, ὦ Ἡράκλεισ, ἄγροικον τοῦτο εἴρηκασ καὶ δεινῶσ Βοιώτιον, συναπολέσαι ἑνὶ πονηρῷ τοσούτουσ χρηστούσ,^ καὶ προσέτι τὴν στοὰν αὐτῷ Μαραθῶνι καὶ Μιλτιάδῃ καὶ Κυνεγείρῳ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 32:2)

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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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