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Ῥόδος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ῥόδος Ῥόδου

Structure: Ῥοδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Rhodes

Declension

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

  • οἶδεν ὄροσ, ποταμῶν ἐδάη ῥόον, οἶδε κελεύθουσ ἐσ ῥόδον, ἐσ λειμῶνα· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1171)
  • τοιγάρτοι εἰκότωσ ἄν τισ εἴποι τοὺσ τοιούτουσ τὸ μὲν ῥόδον αὐτὸ μὴ βλέπειν, τὰσ ἀκάνθασ δὲ αὐτοῦ τὰσ παρὰ τὴν ῥίζαν ἀκριβῶσ ἐπισκοπεῖν. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 28 2:2)
  • Ῥόδον ἐκάλει μνηστήρων πόλιν, χρώματι μὲν εἰσ ἀσωτίαν διαλλάττειν ἐκείνων ἡγούμενοσ αὐτούσ, ὁμοιότητι δ’ εἰσ καταφέρειαν ἡδονῆσ τὴν πόλιν μνηστήρων εἰκάζων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 45 4:1)
  • τόδ’ ἀνατίθημί σοι ῥόδον, καλὸν ἀνάθημα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 9 7:3)
  • ὁ δὲ Παγκράτησ ἐν τῷ ποιήματι οὐκ ἀγλαφύρωσ εἴρηκεν οὔλην ἑρ́πυλλον, λευκὸν κρίνον ἠδ’ ὑάκινθον πορφυρέην γλαυκοῦ τε χελιδονίοιο πέτηλα καὶ ῥόδον εἰαρινοῖσιν ἀνοιγόμενον ζεφύροισιν οὔπω γὰρ φύεν ἄνθοσ ἐπώνυμον Ἀντινόοιο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 21 2:2)
  • καὶ εἰσ πάσασ τὰσ χώρασ καὶ Σαμψάμῃ καὶ Σπαρτιάταισ καὶ εἰσ Δῆλον καὶ Μύνδον καὶ Σικυῶνα καὶ εἰσ τὴν Καρίαν καὶ εἰσ Σάμον καὶ εἰσ τὴν Παμφυλίαν καὶ εἰσ τὴν Λυκίαν καὶ εἰσ Ἁλικαρνασσὸν καὶ εἰσ Ρόδον καὶ εἰσ Φασηλίδα καὶ εἰσ Κῶ καὶ εἰσ Σίδην καὶ εἰσ Ἄραδον καὶ εἰσ Γόρτυναν καὶ Κνίδον καὶ Κύπρον καὶ Κυρήνην. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 15:23)
  • εἰσακούσατέ μου, υἱοὶ ὅσιοι, καὶ βλαστήσατε ὡσ ρόδον φυόμενον ἐπὶ ρεύματοσ ὑγροῦ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 39:13)

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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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