ἄκανθος
Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἄκανθος
ἀκάνθου
Structure:
ἀκανθ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
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.
- ἐπαινεῖ Ἄμφισ καὶ τὸν ἐξ Ἀκάνθου πόλεωσ οἶνον λέγων ποδαπὸσ εἶ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 561)
- "ἐπ’ αὐτῇσι στέφανοι ἐπιβέβληνται ἄνω, τῆσ ἀκάνθου τοῦ ἄνθεοσ καὶ ῥοιῆσ καὶ ἀμπέλου πεπλεγμένοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 25 1:4)
- παντᾷ δ’ ἀμφὶ δέπασ περιπέπταται ὑγρὸσ ἄκανθοσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 31)
- ὁ δὲ πρῶτοσ ἐπιχειρήσασ ἀποδυθῆναι τὸ σῶμα καὶ γυμνὸσ Ὀλυμπίασι δραμὼν ἐπὶ τῆσ πεντεκαιδεκάτησ ὀλυμπιάδοσ Ἄκανθοσ ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιοσ ἦν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 4:1)
- ἀνὰ μέσον δὲ ἑκάστου τῶν κιόνων ὑπῆρχε χρυσοῦσ ἄκανθοσ ἀνατείνων ἐκ τοῦ κατ’ ὀλίγον μέχρι τῶν κιονοκράνων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 27 2:1)
- Ὕπηνοσ δὲ ἀνὴρ Πισαῖοσ ἀνείλετο ἐπὶ τῷ διαύλῳ τὸν κότινον, τῇ δὲ ἑξῆσ <ἐπὶ τῷ δολίχῳ> Ἄκανθοσ <Λακεδαιμόνιοσ>. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 10:3)
- μεθ’ ἣν Ἄκανθοσ ἐπὶ τῷ ἰσθμῷ τοῦ Ἄθω κειμένη πόλισ, Ἀνδρίων κτίσμα, ἀφ’ ἧσ συχνοὶ καὶ τὸν κόλπον Ἀκάνθιον καλοῦσι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter fragments 72:4)
