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Ὀλυμπικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀλυμπικός Ὀλυμπική Ὀλυμπικόν

Structure: Ὀλυμπικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of Olympus
  2. of Olympia, Olympic, the Olympic

Examples

  • Κυνίσκασ δὲ ὕστερον γυναιξὶ καὶ ἄλλαισ καὶ μάλιστα ταῖσ ἐκ Λακεδαίμονοσ γεγόνασιν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι, ὧν ἡ ἐπιφανεστέρα ἐσ τὰσ νίκασ <οὐδεμία> ἐστὶν αὐτῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 2:3)
  • τῷ δὲ Ἑτοιμοκλεῖ καὶ αὐτῷ <καὶ> Ἱπποσθένει τῷ πατρὶ πάλησ εἰσὶν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι, καὶ συναμφοτέροισ μὲν μία τε καὶ δέκα, τῷ δὲ Ἱπποσθένει μιᾷ νίκῃ τὸν υἱὸν παρελθεῖν ὑπῆρξεν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 14:4)
  • φωραθείσησ δὲ ὅτι εἰή γυνή, ταύτην ἀφιᾶσιν ἀζήμιον καὶ τῷ πατρὶ καὶ ἀδελφοῖσ αὐτῆσ καὶ τῷ παιδὶ αἰδῶ νέμοντεσ ‐ ὑπῆρχον δὴ ἅπασιν αὐτοῖσ Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι ‐ , ἐποίησαν δὲ νόμον ἐσ τὸ ἔπειτα ἐπὶ τοῖσ γυμνασταῖσ γυμνοὺσ σφᾶσ ἐσ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἐσέρχεσθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 15:2)
  • τούτουσ ἐκέλευσεν ἀφεῖναί με ὁ λόγοσ, ὅτι οὐ κατάλογόσ ἐστιν ἀθλητῶν ὁπόσοισ γεγόνασιν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι, ἀναθημάτων δὲ ἄλλων τε καὶ εἰκόνων συγγραφή. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 3:1)
  • τῷ δὲ Ἀρκεσιλάῳ καὶ Λίχᾳ τῷ παιδί, τῷ μὲν αὐτῶν γεγόνασι δύο Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι, Λίχασ δὲ εἰργομένων τηνικαῦτα τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ Λακεδαιμονίων καθῆκεν ἐπὶ ὀνόματι τοῦ Θηβαίων δήμου τὸ ἁρ́μα, τὸν δὲ ἡνίοχον νικήσαντα ἀνέδησεν αὐτὸσ ταινίᾳ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. of Olympus

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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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