Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Σμυρναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σμυρναῖος Σμυρναῖη Σμυρναῖον

Structure: Σμυρναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of myrrh

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν ἐπεὶ λίθου τοῦτό γε ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἐποίησασ οὔτε παρακολουθήσασ οὔτε τὸν Σμυρναῖον ἐκεῖνον ἐρόμενοσ, ὅστισ ἦν, κἂν τὸ εἶδοσ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε ὑπόδειξον τῷ λόγῳ· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 3:1)
  • ὁ δὲ οὐδ’ αὐτὸσ μὲν ἀγνοεῖν ἔφασκεν ὡσ οἱ μὲν Χῖον, οἱ δὲ Σμυρναῖον, πολλοὶ δὲ Κολοφώνιον αὐτὸν νομίζουσιν· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 20:3)
  • συνεστηκέναι μὲν γὰρ παλαίοντασ ἐπὶ τῷ στεφάνῳ τόν τε τοῦ Δαμονίκου παῖδα Πολύκτορα καὶ Σώσανδρον γένοσ Σμυρναῖον, ὁμώνυμον τῷ πατρί· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 26:4)
  • ὥστε καὶ τῶν ποιητῶν ἤδη τισὶ Σμυρναῖον τρόπον τὸ τοιοῦτον εἰρῆσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. of myrrh

Related

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

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