Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

Πτολεμαϊκός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πτολεμαϊκός Πτολεμαϊκή Πτολεμαϊκόν

Structure: Πτολεμαϊκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from Ptolemy

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

  • Θεόδοτοσ δέ τισ ἐκπληρῶσαι τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν διανοηθείσ, παραλαβὼν τῶν προϋποτεταγμένων αὐτῷ ὅπλων Πτολεμαϊκῶν τὰ κράτιστα, διεκομίσθη νύκτωρ ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου σκηνὴν ὡσ μόνοσ κτεῖναι αὐτὸν καὶ ἐν τούτῳ διαλῦσαι τὸν πόλεμον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:2)
  • ὅτε γοῦν Γάλλοσ ἐπῆρχε τῆσ Αἰγύπτου, συνόντεσ αὐτῷ καὶ συναναβάντεσ μέχρι Συήνησ καὶ τῶν Αἰθιοπικῶν ὁρ́ων ἱστοροῦμεν, ὅτι καὶ ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι νῆεσ πλέοιεν ἐκ Μυὸσ ὁρ́μου πρὸσ τὴν Ἰνδικήν, πρότερον ἐπὶ τῶν Πτολεμαϊκῶν βασιλέων ὀλίγων παντάπασι θαρρούντων πλεῖν καὶ τὸν Ἰνδικὸν ἐμπορεύεσθαι φόρτον. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 24:4)

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

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