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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

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

  • καὶ ἀλέκτωρ ἐμπεριπατῶν θηλείαισ εὔψυχοσ καὶ τράγοσ ἡγούμενοσ αἰπολίου καὶ βασιλεὺσ δημηγορῶν ἐν ἔθνει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:67)
  • ἡρώων ὀλίγαι μὲν ἐν ὄμμασιν, αἱ δ’ ἔτι λοιπαὶ πατρίδεσ οὐ πολλῷ γ’ αἰπύτεραι πεδίων οἱήν καὶ σέ, τάλαινα, παρερχόμενόσ γε Μυκήνην ἔγνων, αἰπολίου παντὸσ ἐρημοτέρην, αἰπολικὸν μήνυμα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1011)
  • ἐκκειμένῳ δὲ ἐδίδου μέν οἱ γάλα μία τῶν περὶ τὸ ὄροσ ποιμαινομένων αἰγῶν, ἐφύλασσε δὲ ὁ κύων ὁ τοῦ αἰπολίου φρουρόσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a herd of goats

  2. a goat-pasture

Related

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

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