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Χῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Χῖος Χῖη Χῖον

Structure: Χι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from Xi/os

Sense

  1. Chian, of or from Chios, Homer
  2. the Chians
  3. ace-dot

Declension

First/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

  • ὡσ ἀνακύπτειν τὰσ Σικελικὰσ καὶ Συβαριτικὰσ τραπέζασ, ἤδη δὲ καὶ Χίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 46 3:5)
  • περὶ ἧσ φησιν Θεόπομποσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ τῆσ Χίασ Ἐπιστολῆσ, ὅτι μετὰ τὸν τῆσ Πυθιονίκησ θάνατον ὁ Ἅρπαλοσ μετεπέμψατο τὴν Γλυκέραν Ἀθήνηθεν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 50 3:2)
  • Ῥωμαίουσ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἀνέξεσθαι τὰσ ἁρπαγὰσ ὑπελάμβανεν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα χωρή‐ σειν, αὑτῷ δ’ ἐξουσίαν ἔσεσθαι κατηγορεῖν αὐτῶν πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ὡσ ἀρχόντων πολέμου, Ἀλβανῶν δὲ τοὺσ πλείστουσ φθονοῦντασ τοῖσ ἀποίκοισ τῆσ εὐτυ‐ χίασ δέξεσθαι τὰσ διαβολὰσ ἀσμένουσ καὶ τὸν κατ’ αὐτῶν πόλεμον ἐξοίσειν, ὅπερ καὶ συνέβη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 2 4:2)
  • τὸ δ’ εὐώνυμον διὰ τὸ παραβοηθῆσαι τοῖσ ἐπὶ τῆσ οὐραγίασ ἐξ ὑποστροφῆσ οὐ πολὺ τῆσ Χίασ ἀπέχον ἐναυμάχει τοῖσ Ῥοδίοισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 16, chapter 5 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Chians

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

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