Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ὀρέστειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρέστειος Ὀρέστειᾱ Ὀρέστειον

Structure: Ὀρεστει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of Orestes

Examples

  • " ὁ μὲν δὴ Ἄργοσ τὸ Πελοποννήσιον καὶ Ἄργοσ τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν καὶ Ἄργοσ τὸ ἐν Ὀρεστείᾳ ὁ̔́θεν οἱ Ἀργεάδαι Μακεδόνεσ̓ καὶ τὸ ἐν τῷ Ιὀνίῳ λεγόμενον οἰκίσαι Διομήδην ἀλώμενον, καὶ εἴ τί που γῆσ ἄλλο Ἄργοσ ἐκαλεῖτο, πάντα ἀνεζήτει καὶ ἐφυλάσσετο· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 10 5:7)

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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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