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Ποσειδεών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ποσειδεών Ποσειδεῶνος

Structure: Ποσειδεων (Stem)

Sense

Declension

Third 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

  • αὐτοὶ μέν νυν Θεσσαλοί φασι Ποσειδέωνα ποιῆσαι τὸν αὐλῶνα δι’ οὗ ῥέει ὁ Πηνειόσ, οἰκότα λέγοντεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 129 5:1)
  • ὅστισ γὰρ νομίζει Ποσειδέωνα τὴν γῆν σείειν καὶ τὰ διεστεῶτα ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ τούτου ἔργα εἶναι, κἂν ἐκεῖνο ἰδὼν φαίη Ποσειδέωνα ποιῆσαι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 129 5:2)
  • ἔστι ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλι ταύτῃ Ἐρεχθέοσ τοῦ γηγενέοσ λεγομένου εἶναι νηόσ, ἐν τῷ ἐλαίη τε καὶ θάλασσα ἔνι, τὰ λόγοσ παρὰ Ἀθηναίων Ποσειδέωνά τε καὶ Ἀθηναίην ἐρίσαντασ περὶ τῆσ χώρησ μαρτύρια θέσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 55 2:2)

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

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