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αἰπόλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰπόλιον

Structure: αἰπολι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from ai)po/los

Sense

  1. a herd of goats
  2. a goat-pasture

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἰπόλιον αἰπολίω αἰπόλια
Genitive αἰπολίου αἰπολίοιν αἰπολίων
Dative αἰπολίῳ αἰπολίοιν αἰπολίοις
Accusative αἰπόλιον αἰπολίω αἰπόλια
Vocative αἰπόλιον αἰπολίω αἰπόλια

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

  • τινὲσ δὲ κώδια καὶ τραγέασ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ φοροῦντασ καὶ τὰ πλεῖστα συνόντασ αἰπολίοισ γενέσθαι δυσώδεισ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 15 2:2)
  • Ὀζόλασ δὲ Λοκροὺσ οἱ μὲν διὰ τὸν Νέσσον, οἱ δὲ τὸν Πύθωνα δράκοντα κληθῆναι λέγουσιν, ἐκβρασθέντασ ὑπὸ τῆσ θαλάττησ καὶ σαπέντασ ἐν τῇ τῶν Λοκρῶν χώρᾳ, τινὲσ δὲ κώδια καὶ τραγέασ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ φοροῦντασ καὶ τὰ πλεῖστα συνόντασ αἰπολίοισ γενέσθαι δυσώδεισ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 15 4:1)
  • ὦ δύσμοροσ, ὃσ χερὶ μὲν μεθῆκα τοὺσ ἀλάστορασ, ἐν δ’ ἑλίκεσσι βουσὶ καὶ κλυτοῖσ πεσὼν αἰπολίοισ ἐρεμνὸν αἷμ’ ἔδευσα. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 28)
  • καίτοι Καδμεῖον κράτοσ οἴσομεν, εἴ σε πάροικον ψυχῇ συζεύξω, λύγκα παρ’ αἰπολίοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 179 1:2)
  • ὁ πρὶν καὶ Γύγῃ παρισεύμενοσ ὄλβον, ὁ τὸ πρὶν βουπάμων, ὁ πρὶν πλούσιοσ αἰπολίοισ, ὁ πρὶν ‐ τί πλείω μυθεῦμαι; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 7403)

Synonyms

  1. a herd of goats

  2. a goat-pasture

Related

Similar forms

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

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