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Νάξιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νάξιος Νάξιᾱ Νάξιον

Structure: Ναξι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Naxian;, the Naxians, a Naxian

Examples

  • ’ Ἀριστοτέλησ δ’ ἐν τῇ Ναξίων πολιτείᾳ περὶ τῆσ παροιμίασ οὕτωσ γράφει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 40 1:2)
  • δίδου μασᾶσθαι Ναξίασ ἀμυγδάλασ οἶνόν τε πίνειν Ναξίων ἀπ’ ἀμπέλων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 39 2:3)
  • ἀλλὰ τί ἄν τισ ἀγανακτοίη περὶ Ναξίων; (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 371)
  • Σῆμοσ δ’ ἐν Δήλῳ ἀνακεῖσθαί φησι χαλκοῦν φοίνικα, Ναξίων ἀνάθημα, καὶ καρυωτὰσ φιάλασ χρυσᾶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 105 1:9)
  • ὁ δὲ φοῖνιξ ἐκεῖνοσ ὑπὸ τῶν πνευμάτων ἀποκλασθεὶσ ἐνέπεσε τῷ Ναξίων ἀνδριάντι τῷ μεγάλῳ καὶ ἀνέτρεψε. (Plutarch, , chapter 3 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. Naxian

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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