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Ποσειδώνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ποσειδώνιος Ποσειδώνιᾱ Ποσειδώνιον

Structure: Ποσειδωνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from Poseidw=n

Sense

  1. sacred to Poseidon
  2. the temple of Poseidon
  3. his festival

Declension

First/Second 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

  • φησὶ δὲ Μόργητοσ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ βασιλεύοντοσ ἡ̓͂ν δὲ τότε Ἰταλία ἡ ἀπὸ Τάραντοσ ἄχρι Ποσειδωνίασ παράλιοσ’ ἐλθεῖν ὡσ αὐτὸν ἄνδρα φυγάδα ἐκ Ῥώμησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 73 7:1)
  • τούτουσ ἐκβαλόντεσ Ἀβοριγῖνεσ αὐτοὶ κατέσχον τὸν τόπον Οἰνώτρων ὄντεσ ἀπόγονοι τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν ἀπὸ Τάραντοσ ἄχρι Ποσειδωνίασ παράλιον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 1 3:1)
  • μεταξὺ δὲ τῶν Σειρηνουσσῶν καὶ τῆσ Ποσειδωνίασ Μαρκῖνα, Τυρρηνῶν κτίσμα οἰκούμενον ὑπὸ Σαυνιτῶν. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 26:7)
  • διέχει δὲ τῆσ Ποσειδωνίασ ὅσον διακοσίουσ σταδίουσ ἡ πόλισ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 2:11)

Synonyms

  1. sacred to Poseidon

  2. the temple of Poseidon

  3. his festival

Related

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

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