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Μεσσάπιος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μεσσάπιος Μεσσαπίου

Structure: Μεσσαπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one of the Messapii; a Messapian

Declension

Second 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

  • Μεσσάπιοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 76 1:2)
  • ἅμα δὲ οἵ τε Μεσσάπιοι, καθ’ οὓσ ἐξεβράσθη, συνέθεον βοηθοῦντεσ ἐκ τῶν παρόντων προθύμωσ, καὶ προσεφέροντο τῶν σῳζομένων ἔνιαι νεῶν, ἐν αἷσ ἦσαν ἱππεῖσ μὲν ὀλίγοι παντάπασι πεζοὶ δὲ δισχιλίων ἐλάττουσ, ἐλέφαντεσ δὲ δύο. (Plutarch, chapter 15 5:1)
  • τοιγὰρ καὶ προσεκαρτέρουν αὐτῷ καὶ τῶν λόγων ἕνεκα προσῄεσαν καὶ Λευκανοὶ καὶ Πευκέτιοι Μεσσάπιοί τε καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. a'. PUQAGORAS 14:5)

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