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Πύθιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πύθιον Πύθιου

Structure: Πυθι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: Puqw/

Sense

  1. the temple of Pythian Apollo

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Πύθιον Πυθίω Πύθια
Genitive Πυθίου Πυθίοιν Πυθίων
Dative Πυθίῳ Πυθίοιν Πυθίοις
Accusative Πύθιον Πυθίω Πύθια
Vocative Πύθιον Πυθίω Πύθια

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

  • Ταραντῖνοσ Εὐάγγελοσ τοὔνομα τῶν οὐκ ἀφανῶν ἐν τῷ Τάραντι ἐπεθύμησεν νικῆσαι Πύθια. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 8:2)
  • πρόσπολοι, διωκόμεσθα θανασίμουσ ἐπὶ σφαγάσ, Πυθίᾳ ψήφῳ κρατηθεῖσ’, ἔκδοτοσ δὲ γίγνομαι. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees1)
  • ἡ δὲ Πυθία εἴρηκέ τισι Διόνυσον ὑγιάτην καλεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 2 4:2)
  • καὶ ἡ Πυθία ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 18 2:3)
  • ἡ δὲ Πυθία προέφερεν αἰεὶ τοῖσ Λακεδαιμονίοισ χρηστηριαζομένοισ ἐλευθεροῦν τὰσ Ἀθήνασ, εἰσ τοῦθ’ ἑώσ προύτρεψε τοὺσ Σπαρτιάτασ, καίπερ ὄντων ξένων αὐτοῖσ τῶν Πεισιστρατιδῶν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 19 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. the temple of Pythian Apollo

Related

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

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