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Μαχάων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μαχάων Μαχάονος

Structure: Μαχαων (Stem)

Etym.: Perh. akin to ma/xaira.

Sense

  1. Machaon

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Μαχάων Μαχάονε Μαχάονες
Genitive Μαχάονος Μαχαόνοιν Μαχαόνων
Dative Μαχάονι Μαχαόνοιν Μαχάοσιν*
Accusative Μαχάονα Μαχάονε Μαχάονας
Vocative Μαχάων Μαχάονε Μαχάονες

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

  • Ἀριστοτέλησ πατρὸσ μὲν ἦν Νικομάχου τὸ γένοσ καὶ τὴν τέχνην ἀναφέροντοσ εἰσ Μαχάονα τὸν Ἀσκληπιοῦ, μητρὸσ δὲ Φαιστίδοσ ἀπογόνου τινὸσ τῶν ἐκ Χαλκίδοσ τὴν ἀποικίαν ἀγαγόντων εἰσ Στάγειρα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 51)
  • ὅτι Πενθεσίλεια, Ὀτρηρῆσ καὶ Ἄρεοσ, ἀκουσίωσ Ἱππολύτην κτείνασα καὶ ὑπὸ Πριάμου καθαρθεῖσα, μάχησ γενομένησ πολλοὺσ κτείνει, ἐν οἷσ καὶ Μαχάονα· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 5 2:1)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ Ἕρμιπποσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ Ιἄμβῳ τῶν Τριμέτρων Ἀσκληπιοῦ καὶ Λαμπετίασ τῆσ Ἡλίου λέγει Μαχάονα καὶ Ποδαλείριον καὶ Ιἀσὼ καὶ Πανάκειαν καὶ Αἴγλην νεωτάτην. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 1)
  • Ταλθύβι’ ὅττι τάχιστα Μαχάονα δεῦρο κάλεσσον φῶτ’ Ἀσκληπιοῦ υἱὸν ἀμύμονοσ ἰητῆροσ, ὄφρα ἴδῃ Μενέλαον ἀρήϊον Ἀτρέοσ υἱόν, ὅν τισ ὀϊστεύσασ ἔβαλεν τόξων ἐὺ̈ εἰδὼσ Τρώων ἢ Λυκίων, τῷ μὲν κλέοσ, ἄμμι δὲ πένθοσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 19:2)
  • ὣσ ἔφατ’, οὐδ’ ἄρα οἱ κῆρυξ ἀπίθησεν ἀκούσασ, βῆ δ’ ἰέναι κατὰ λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων παπταίνων ἡρ́ωα Μαχάονα· (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 20:1)

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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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