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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

  • ὁ μὲν οὖν συμβουλευτικὸσ λόγοσ ἔστω, ἐν ᾧ παρακαλεῖ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ διαλύσασθαι μὲν τὸν συμμαχικὸν κληθέντα πόλεμον, ὃν ἐπολέμουν πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ Χῖοί τε καὶ Ῥόδιοι καὶ οἱ τούτων σύμμαχοι, παύσασθαι δὲ πλεονεκτοῦντασ καὶ τῆσ κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν ἐπιθυμοῦντασ ἀρχῆσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 4:3)
  • μαρτυροῦνται γὰρ καὶ Χῖοι οὐκ ἔλαττον τῶν προειρημένων ἐπὶ ὀψαρτυτικῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 46 3:6)
  • Χῖοι πολὺ ἄριστ’ ἀνευρήκασιν ὀψαρτυτικήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 46 4:1)
  • οἱ δὲ Χῖοι συμπλέοντεσ αὐτῷ, πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ Φασηλίτασ ἐκ παλαιοῦ φιλικῶσ ἔχοντεσ, ἅμα μὲν τὸν Κίμωνα κατεπράϋνον, ἅμα δὲ τοξεύοντεσ ὑπὲρ τὰ τείχη βιβλίδια προσκείμενα τοῖσ ὀϊστοῖσ ἐξήγγελλον τοῖσ Φασηλίταισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 12 3:2)
  • σκηνὴν μὲν γὰρ αὐτῷ Περσικὴν ἔπησσον Ἐφέσιοι, τροφὴν δὲ τοῖσ ἵπποισ αὐτοῦ Χῖοι παρεῖχον, ἱερεῖα δὲ παρίστασαν εἰσ τὰσ θυσίασ καὶ κρεανομίασ Κυζικηνοί, Λέσβιοι δὲ οἶνον παρεῖχον καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ πρὸσ τὴν καθ’ ἡμέραν δίαιταν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 2:1)

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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