Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Τραγασαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τραγασαῖος Τραγασαῖη Τραγασαῖον

Structure: Τραγασαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from the Epirotic city, in Tragasaean fashion

Examples

  • ὡσ Τραγασαῖα φαίνεται. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 2:19)
  • οὐδ’ ἐντυχὼν ἐν τἀγορᾷ πρόσεισί σοι βαδίζων Κρατῖνοσ ἀεὶ κεκαρμένοσ μοιχὸν μιᾷ μαχαίρᾳ, ὁ περιπόνηροσ Ἀρτέμων, ὁ ταχὺσ ἄγαν τὴν μουσικήν, ὄζων κακὸν τῶν μασχαλῶν πατρὸσ Τραγασαίου· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Choral, strophe 31)
  • "καὶ ἐν Τρῳάδι δὲ ἐξουσίαν εἶχον οἱ βουλόμενοι τὸν πρὸ τοῦ χρόνον τὸν Τραγασαῖον ἅλα λαμβάνειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 37)
  • χωρὶσ γοῦν καὶ τὸ Ἁλήσιον πεδίον οὐ μέγα ἐντὸσ τοῦ Λεκτοῦ καὶ τὸ Τραγασαῖον ἁλοπήγιον αὐτόματον τοῖσ ἐτησίαισ πηγνύμενον πρὸσ Ἁμαξιτῷ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 79:18)

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION