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Χάων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Χάων Χάονος

Structure: Χαων (Stem)

Sense

  1. An inhabitant of Chaonia; a Chaonian

Declension

Third 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

  • τῶν μὲν οὖν Ἠπειρωτῶν ἔθνη φησὶν εἶναι Θεόπομποσ τετταρεσκαίδεκα, τούτων δ’ ἐνδοξότατα Χάονεσ καὶ Μολοττοὶ διὰ τὸ ἄρξαι ποτὲ πάσησ τῆσ Ἠπειρώτιδοσ πρότερον μὲν Χάονασ, ὕστερον δὲ Μολοττούσ, οἳ καὶ διὰ τὴν συγγένειαν τῶν βασιλέων ἐπὶ πλέον ηὐξήθησαν τῶν γὰρ Αἰακιδῶν ἦσαν, καὶ διὰ τὸ παρὰ τούτοισ εἶναι τὸ ἐν Δωδώνῃ μαντεῖον, παλαιόν τε καὶ ὀνομαστὸν ὄν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 10:1)
  • Χάονεσ μὲν οὖν καὶ Θεσπρωτοὶ καὶ μετὰ τούτουσ ἐφεξῆσ Κασσωπαῖοι καὶ οὗτοι δ’ εἰσὶ Θεσπρωτοὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν Κεραυνίων ὀρῶν μέχρι τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου παραλίαν νέμονται χώραν εὐδαίμονα ἔχοντεσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 10:2)

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