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

  • ἐδόκει δέ μοι Σμυρναῖοσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ὁ λέγων εἶναι, οὕτωσ ἐσεμνύνετο ἐπ’ αὐτῇ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 2:7)
  • Ἕρμιπποσ δὲ ὁ Σμυρναῖοσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Ἱππώνακτοσ ὕκην ἀκούει τὴν ἰουλίδα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 132 1:5)
  • τί δαί, Σμυρναῖοσ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2993)
  • Λιγυρτιάδου, Κολοφώνιοσ ἢ Σμυρναῖοσ ἢ Ἀστυπαλαιεύσ, ἐλεγειοποιόσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , prop. i. 9. 92)
  • τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατοσ ῥήτωρ Σμυρναῖοσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. e'. DHMHTRIOS 11:1)

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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