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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

  • εὑρήσεισ γὰρ τὸ τῶν μουσικῶν δὴ τοῦτο, δὶσ διὰ πασῶν τὸ πρᾶγμα, καὶ τοσοῦτον ἐοικότασ ἀλλήλοισ τοὺσ βίουσ, ὅσον μόλυβδοσ ἀργύρῳ καὶ χαλκὸσ χρυσῷ καὶ ἀνεμώνη ῥόδῳ καὶ ἀνθρώπῳ πίθηκοσ· (Lucian, Apologia 26:1)
  • οἶδεν ὄροσ, ποταμῶν ἐδάη ῥόον, οἶδε κελεύθουσ ἐσ ῥόδον, ἐσ λειμῶνα· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1171)
  • ἅ νιν ἀμφέβαλεν αἰόλαν πορφύραν, κόμαισί τ’ ἐπέθηκεν οὔλαισ ἀμεμφέα πλόκον, τόν ποτέ ϝοι ἐν γάμῳ δῶκε δόλιοσ Ἀφροδίτα ῥόδοισ ἐρεμνόν. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 5:9)
  • πολυτελὲσ ὄψον ὠνουμένουσ καὶ τὸν οἶνον ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ μετὰ κρόκων τε καὶ ἀρομάτων ἐκχέοντασ, τοὺσ μέσου χειμῶνοσ ἐμπιπλαμένουσ ῥόδων καὶ τὸ σπάνιον αὐτῶν καὶ παρὰ καιρὸν ἀγαπῶντοσ, τῶν δ’ ἐν καιρῷ καὶ κατὰ φύσιν ὡσ εὐτελῶν ὑπερηφανοῦντασ, τούτουσ εἶναι τοὺσ καὶ τὰ μύρα πίνοντασ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 31:4)
  • εἰ γάρ τοι, ἔφη, τῇ πνοῇ τῶν ἰών τε καὶ ῥόδων χαίρουσιν, ὑπὸ τῇ ῥινὶ μάλιστα ἐχρῆν αὐτοὺσ στέφεσθαι παρ’ αὐτὴν ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε τὴν ἀναπνοήν, ἵν’ ὡσ πλεῖστον ἀνέσπων τῆσ ἡδονῆσ. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 32:3)
  • ἡ ̔ Ῥόδοσ ἀσταφίδασ τε καὶ ἰσχάδασ ἡδυονείρουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 49 2:7)
  • ταύτῃ τισ προσθέτω γράμμα ἓν τῶν ἡμιφώνων τὸ ρ καὶ γενέσθω Ῥόδοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 157)
  • μακαρτάτη ἔστ’ ἄρα νήσων καὶ Ῥόδοσ, ἣ τοίῳ λάμπεται ἠελίῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 493)
  • ὡσ πάροσ Αἐλίου, νῦν Καίσαροσ ἁ Ῥόδοσ εἰμὶ νᾶσοσ, ἴσον δ’ αὐχῶ φέγγοσ ἀπ’ ἀμφοτέρων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1781)
  • οὔτε γὰρ Χίοσ οὔτε Ῥόδοσ οὔτε Κέρκυρα μεθ’ ἡμῶν ἦν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 339:2)

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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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