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Μολοσσός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μολοσσός Μολοσσοῦ

Structure: Μολοσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Molossian
  2. an inhabitant of Molossia

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

  • μεθ’ οὓσ ἐπόμπευσαν κυνηγοὶ β’ ἔχοντεσ σιβύνασ ἐπιχρύσουσ, ἤγοντο δὲ καὶ κύνεσ δισχίλιοι τετρακόσιοι, οἱ μὲν Ἰνδοί, οἱ λοιποὶ δὲ Ὑρκανοὶ καὶ Μολοσσοὶ καὶ ἑτέρων γενῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3114)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ στασιάσαντεσ οἱ Μολοσσοὶ καὶ τὸν Αἰακίδην ἐκβαλόντεσ ἐπηγάγοντο τοὺσ Νεοπτολέμου παῖδασ, οἱ μὲν φίλοι τοῦ Αἰακίδου διεφθάρησαν καταληφθέντεσ, τὸν δὲ Πύρρον ἔτι νήπιον ὄντα καὶ ζητούμενον ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων ἐκκλέψαντεσ οἱ περὶ Ἀνδροκλείδην καὶ Ἄγγελον ἔφευγον, οἰκέτασ ὀλίγουσ καὶ γύναια τιθηνούμενα τὸ παιδίον ἀναγκαίωσ ἐφελκόμενοι. (Plutarch, chapter 2 1:1)
  • τῶν Ἄβαντεσ μὲν ἐξ Εὐβοίεσ εἰσὶ οὐκ ἐλαχίστη μοῖρα, τοῖσι Ιὠνίησ μέτα οὐδὲ τοῦ οὐνόματοσ οὐδέν, Μινύαι δὲ Ὀρχομένιοί σφι ἀναμεμίχαται καὶ Καδμεῖοι καὶ Δρύοπεσ καὶ Φωκέεσ ἀποδάσμιοι καὶ Μολοσσοὶ καὶ Ἀρκάδεσ Πελασγοὶ καὶ Δωριέεσ Ἐπιδαύριοι, ἄλλα τε ἔθνεα πολλὰ ἀναμεμίχαται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 146 2:3)
  • λόχον μέν σφισιν ἐν νυκτὶ οἱ Μολοσσοὶ παρεσκεύασαν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 6:3)

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