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ἀκραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκραῖος

Structure: ἀκραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kra

Sense

  1. dwelling on the heights

Examples

  • λέγεται δὲ <καὶ> ὅτι φεύγουσα τοὺσ παῖδασ ἔτι νηπίουσ ὄντασ κατέλιπεν, ἱκέτασ καθίσασα ἐπὶ τὸν βωμὸν τῆσ Ἥρασ τῆσ ἀκραίασ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 28:3)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὸ Ἀκραίασ, νεώτατον δὲ ἣν Κνιδίαν οἱ πολλοί, Κνίδιοι δὲ αὐτοὶ καλοῦσιν Εὔπλοιαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 7:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ νῦν ἀκροπόλει Τύχησ ἱερόν ἐστιν Ἀκραίασ, μετὰ δὲ αὐτὸ Διοσκούρων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 9:1)
  • καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν Ἀκραίασ τὸ ὄροσ καλοῦσι τὸ ἀπαντικρὺ τοῦ Ἡραίου, ἀπὸ δὲ Εὐβοίασ ὅσον περὶ τὸ ἱερόν, Πρόσυμναν δὲ τὴν ὑπὸ τὸ Ἡραῖον χώραν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 3:1)
  • ἀνιόντων δὲ ἐσ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἔστι μὲν τῆσ Ἀκραίασ Ἥρασ τὸ ἱερόν, ἔστι δὲ καὶ ναὸσ Ἀπόλλωνοσ, ὃν Πυθαεὺσ πρῶτοσ παραγενόμενοσ ἐκ Δελφῶν λέγεται ποιῆσαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling on the heights

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

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