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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

  • ὁ δὲ παῖσ Πτολεμαῖοσ, ἔχων δισχιλίουσ Γαλάτασ καὶ Χαόνων λογάδασ, ἐξελίξασ τὴν τάφρον ἐπειρᾶτο κατὰ τὰσ ἁμάξασ ὑπερβαίνειν. (Plutarch, chapter 28 1:2)
  • Ἰλλυριοὺσ Ἕλληνεσ ἡγοῦνται τοὺσ ὑπέρ τε Μακεδονίαν καὶ Θρᾴκην ἀπὸ Χαόνων καὶ Θεσπρωτῶν ἐπὶ ποταμὸν Ἴστρον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 1:1)
  • ὁ δὲ πλοῦσ ἀπὸ τῶν Χαόνων ἀρξαμένῳ πρὸσ ἀνίσχοντα ἥλιον καὶ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀμβρακικὸν κόλπον καὶ τὸν Κορινθιακόν, ἐν δεξιᾷ ἔχοντι τὸ Αὐσόνιον πέλαγοσ, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ τὴν Ἤπειρον, εἰσὶ χίλιοι καὶ τριακόσιοι στάδιοι ἀπὸ τῶν Κεραυνίων ἐπὶ τὸ στόμα τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 10:3)

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