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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

  • βουκολίασ δ’ ἀγέλασ τε καὶ αἰπόλια πλατέ’ αἰγῶν ποίμνασ τ’ εἰροπόκων ὀίων, θυμῷ γ’ ἐθέλουσα, ἐξ ὀλίγων βριάει κἀκ πολλῶν μείονα θῆκεν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:20)
  • ἢ Πανὶ μὲν ἡ θυσία γίγνεται, Πανὶ δὲ κύων προσφιλὲσ διὰ τὰ αἰπόλια; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 68 1:4)
  • αἰπόλια; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 68 5:1)
  • ἣ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἵππων τε φορβάδων καὶ βοῶν ἀγέλαισ προσῆλθεν, ἀπὸ δὲ τούτων εἴσ τ’ αἰπόλια καὶ ποίμνασ κατέσκηψε, καὶ διέφθειρεν ὀλίγου δεῖν πάντα τὰ τετράποδα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 67 1:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ αἰπόλια καὶ ποίμνια συμμιχθέντα ἐπὶ νομῆσ διημερεύσαντα ῥᾳδίωσ καὶ πρᾴωσ ὑπὸ τῶν νομέων διεκρίθησαν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 73:1)

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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