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Ῥοδιακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ῥοδιακός Ῥοδιακή Ῥοδιακόν

Structure: Ῥοδιακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: R(o/dos

Sense

  1. Rhodian, of Rhodes

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὅ γε Ἀρχέστρατοσ περὶ τοῦ Ῥοδιακοῦ γαλεοῦ λέγων τοῖσ ἑταίροισ πατρικῶσ πωσ συμβουλεύων φησίν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 44 1:3)
  • τὴν γὰρ Εὐδόξου σκοπὴν οὐ πολὺ τῶν οἰκήσεων ὑψηλοτέραν εἶναι, λέγεσθαι δ’ ὅτι ἐντεῦθεν ἐκεῖνοσ ἀφεώρα τὸν Κάνωβον ἀστέρα, εἶναι δ’ ἐπὶ τοῦ Ῥοδιακοῦ κλίματοσ τὴν Κνίδον, ἐφ’ οὗ καὶ τὰ Γάδειρα καὶ ἡ ταύτῃ παραλία. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 28:20)

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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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