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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

  • "ἄρχονται μέν, φησί, κύειν τῶν κεστρέων οἱ μὲν χελλῶνεσ Ποσειδεῶνοσ μηνὸσ καὶ ὁ σαργὸσ καὶ ὁ μύξοσ καλούμενοσ καὶ ὁ κέφαλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 77 2:1)
  • συντελείτωσαν δὲ καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἡμέραν τοῦ Ποσειδεῶνοσ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 18:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ὅτι γε οὐ παρ’ Ἑλλήνων ἔλαβον τὸ οὔνομα Αἰγύπτιοι τοῦ Ἡρακλέοσ, ἀλλὰ Ἕλληνεσ μᾶλλον παρ’ Αἰγυπτίων καὶ Ἑλλήνων οὗτοι οἱ θέμενοι τῷ Ἀμφιτρύωνοσ γόνῳ τοὔνομα Ἡρακλέα, πολλά μοι καὶ ἄλλα τεκμήρια ἐστὶ τοῦτο οὕτω ἔχειν, ἐν δὲ καὶ τόδε, ὅτι τε τοῦ Ἡρακλέοσ τούτου οἱ γονέεσ ἀμφότεροι ἦσαν Ἀμφιτρύων καὶ Ἀλκμήνη γεγονότεσ τὸ ἀνέκαθεν ἀπ’ Αἰγύπτου, καὶ διότι Αἰγύπτιοι οὔτε Ποσειδέωνοσ οὔτε Διοσκούρων τὰ οὐνόματα φασὶ εἰδέναι, οὐδέ σφι θεοὶ οὗτοι ἐν τοῖσι ἄλλοισι θεοῖσι ἀποδεδέχαται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 43 3:1)
  • ὅτι γὰρ δὴ μὴ Ποσειδέωνοσ καὶ Διοσκούρων, ὡσ καὶ πρότερόν μοι ταῦτα εἴρηται, καὶ Ἥρησ καὶ Ἱστίησ καὶ Θέμιοσ καὶ Χαρίτων καὶ Νηρηίδων, τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν Αἰγυπτίοισι αἰεί κοτε τὰ οὐνόματα ἐστὶ ἐν τῇ χώρῃ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 50 3:1)
  • τῶν δὲ οὔ φασι θεῶν γινώσκειν τὰ οὐνόματα, οὗτοι δέ μοι δοκέουσι ὑπὸ Πελασγῶν ὀνομασθῆναι, πλὴν Ποσειδέωνοσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 50 3:3)

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

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