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Πύθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πύθιος Πύθιᾱ Πύθιον

Structure: Πυθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Pu_qw/

Sense

  1. Pythian, Delphian, his temple
  2. four persons whose office it was to consult the Delphic oracle

Examples

  • Πυθίαν δ’ ἦλθεσ πέτραν πρίν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees 1:12)
  • καὶ Μνησίθεοσ δ’ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ Διόνυσον ἰατρόν φησι τὴν Πυθίαν χρῆσαι τιμᾶν Ἀθηναίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 41 1:3)
  • κἀν ἄλλοισ δ’ ὁ Πλάτων φησὶ Χαιρεφῶντα ἐρωτῆσαι τὴν Πυθίαν εἴ τισ εἰή Σωκράτουσ σοφώτεροσ καὶ τὴν ἀνελεῖν μηδένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 601)
  • "εἰρημένοισ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ ἓν βραχύ τοῖσ περὶ Νίκανδρον ἀείσω ξυνετοῖσι τῇ γὰρ ἕκτῃ τοῦ νέου μηνὸσ ὅταν κατάγῃ εἷσ τὴν Πυθίαν εἰσ τὸ πρυτανεῖον, ὁ πρῶτοσ ὑμῖν γίγνεται τῶν τριῶν κλήρων εἰσ, τὰ πέντε, πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἐκείνησ τὰ τρία τοῦ δὲ τὰ δύο βάλλοντεσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 161)
  • "καὶ τὴν Πυθίαν εἰπεῖν κύνασ τρέφειν καὶ κυνηγετεῖν ἁλῶναί τε ἐν ἐνιαυτῷ πλείουσ τῶν ἑξακισχιλίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 632)

Synonyms

  1. Pythian

Related

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

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