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ἀγχίαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγχίαλος ἀγχίαλη ἀγχίαλον

Structure: ἀγχιαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls

Sense

  1. near the sea, sea-girt

Examples

  • "Σαρδανάπαλλοσ Ἀνακυνδαράξεω Ἀγχιάλην ἔδειμε καὶ Ταρσὸν μιῇ ἡμέρῃ, ἀλλὰ νῦν τέθνηκεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:148)
  • "’ Σαρδανάπαλλοσ Ἀνακυνδαράξεω παῖσ Ἀγχιάλην καὶ Ταρσὸν ἔδειμεν ἡμέρῃ μιῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:156)
  • ἐνταῦθα δ’ εἶναι μνῆμα τοῦ Σαρδαναπάλλου καὶ τύπον λίθινον συμβάλλοντα τοὺσ τῆσ δεξιᾶσ χειρὸσ δακτύλουσ ὡσ ἂν ἀποκροτοῦντα, καὶ ἐπιγραφὴν εἶναι Ἀσσυρίοισ γράμμασι τοιάνδε "Σαρδανάπαλλοσ ὁ Ἀνακυνδαράξεω παῖσ Ἀγχιάλην καὶ Ταρσὸν ἔδειμεν ἡμέρῃ μιῇ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 18:3)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἀγχιάλην αἱ τοῦ Κύδνου ἐκβολαὶ κατὰ τὸ Ῥῆγμα καλούμενον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 20:11)

Synonyms

  1. near the sea

Related

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

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