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Πυθιονίκης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πυθιονίκης Πυθιονίκου

Structure: Πυθιονικ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: nika/w

Sense

  1. a conqueror in the Pythian games

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ μὴν ἀληθῶσ τοῖσ κιθαρῳδοῖσ ὡσ σφόδρα ἅπασιν οὗτοσ ἐπιπεφυκὼσ λανθάνει, ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἄριστον Κωβιὸν πηδῶντ’ ἔτι πρὸσ Πυθιονίκην τὴν καλὴν πέμψαι με δεῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 21 3:4)
  • πυθιονίκην δέ φησι φιληδεῖν ταρίχῳ, ἐπεὶ ἐραστὰσ εἶχε τοὺσ Χαιρεφίλου τοῦ ταριχοπώλου υἱούσ, ὡσ Τιμοκλῆσ ἐν Ἰκαρίοισ φησὶν ’ Ἄνυτοσ ὁ παχὺσ πρὸσ Πυθιονίκην ὅταν ἐλθὼν φάγῃ τι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 23 1:1)
  • "ἐπίσκεψαι δὲ καὶ διάκουσον σαφῶσ παρὰ τῶν ἐκ Βαβυλῶνοσ ὃν τρόπον Πυθιονίκην περιέστειλεν τελευτήσασαν, ἣ Βακχίδοσ μὲν ἦν δούλη τῆσ αὐλητρίδοσ, ἐκείνη δὲ Σινώπησ τῆσ Θρᾴττησ τῆσ ἐξ Αἰγίνησ Ἀθήναζε μετενεγκαμένησ τὴν πορνείαν ὥστε γίνεσθαι μὴ μόνον τρίδουλον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τρίπορνον αὐτήν, ἀπὸ πλειόνων δὲ ταλάντων ἢ διακοσίων δύο μνήματα κατεσκεύασεν αὐτῆσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 67 3:1)
  • τὴν Πυθιονίκην οἶσθα καὶ τὸν Ἅρπαλον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 67 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a conqueror in the Pythian games

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

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