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Σούνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σούνιον Σούνιου

Structure: Σουνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. Sunium

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

  • προϊώμεν, ὦ Δίκη, ταύτῃ εὐθὺ τοῦ Σουνίου μικρὸν ὑπὸ τὸν Ὑμηττὸν ἐπὶ τὰ λαιὰ τῆσ Πάρνηθοσ, ἔνθα αἱ δύο ἐκεῖναι ἄκραι· (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 8:1)
  • γενοίμαν ἵν’ ὑλᾶεν ἔπεστι πόντου πρόβλημ’ ἁλίκλυστον, ἄκραν ὑπὸ πλάκα Σουνίου, τὰσ ἱερὰσ ὅπωσ προσείποιμεν Ἀθάνασ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 24)
  • οὔτοι δὴ ἀφῖκται, ἀλλὰ δοκεῖν μέν μοι ἥξει τήμερον ἐξ ὧν ἀπαγγέλλουσιν ἥκοντέσ τινεσ ἀπὸ Σουνίου καὶ καταλιπόντεσ ἐκεῖ αὐτό. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 5:1)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ Σουνίου καταίροντασ εἰσ τὸν Πειραιᾶ μὴ δύνασθαι ἄλλωσ ἢ νότῳ κατᾶραι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 4:2)
  • τὰσ γὰρ νήσουσ τὰσ ἐντὸσ Κυανέων καὶ Τριοπίου καὶ Σουνίου προσηγμένοσ ἦν ὁ βασιλεύσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 2 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. Sunium

Related

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

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