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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

  • οἶδα δὲ καὶ Ποσειδώνιον τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ στοᾶσ εἰπόντα καὶ περὶ πλήθουσ ἰχθύων τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 71)
  • οὕτω καὶ ταύτην τὴν τέχνην ἀκριβοῖ μᾶλλον τῶν τοιαῦτα προηγουμένωσ ἐκδεδωκότων ποιήματα ἢ συγγράμματα, Καίκαλον λέγω τὸν Ἀργεῖον καὶ Νουμήνιον τὸν Ἡρακλεώτην, Παγκράτην τὸν Ἀρκάδα, Ποσειδώνιον τὸν Κορίνθιον καὶ τὸν ὀλίγῳ πρὸ ἡμῶν γενόμενον Ὀππιανὸν τὸν Κίλικα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 22 1:3)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ προαπαντήσαντεσ αὐτοῖσ παρὰ τὸ Ποσειδώνιον συνεμίξαμεν πολλῇ βοῇ χρώμενοι, ἀντήχει δὲ τὸ κύτοσ ὥσπερ τὰ σπήλαια. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 38:4)
  • ὅμοια δὲ τούτοισ ἔστιν ἀντειπεῖν καὶ τοῖσ περὶ Ποσειδώνιον οὐ γὰρ μακρὰν τῆσ ὕλησ ἀπέστησαν· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 22 1:1)
  • λέγει γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἑβδόμῃ τῆσ αὐτῆσ πραγματείασ ἐγνωκέναι Ποσειδώνιον τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ στοᾶσ φιλόσοφον, οὗ πολλάκισ ἐμεμνήμεθα συγγενομένου Σκιπίωνι τῷ τὴν Καρχηδόνα ἑλόντι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 75 1:2)

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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