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ἀκταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκταῖος ἀκταῖη ἀκταῖον

Structure: ἀκται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)kth/

Sense

  1. on the coast, coast-land
  2. haunting the coast

Examples

  • οὗτοι δ’Ἀκταίου πρῶτοι φάγον αἷμα τ’ ἔλαψαν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 4 4:17)
  • Φερεκύδησ δέ φησι Τελαμῶνα φίλον, οὐκ ἀδελφὸν Πηλέωσ εἶναι, ἀλλ’ Ἀκταίου παῖδα καὶ Γλαύκησ τῆσ Κυχρέωσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 12 6:14)
  • Κέκροψ δὲ γήμασ τὴν Ἀκταίου κόρην Ἄγραυλον παῖδα μὲν ἔσχεν Ἐρυσίχθονα, ὃσ ἄτεκνοσ μετήλλαξε, θυγατέρασ δὲ Ἄγραυλον Ἕρσην Πάνδροσον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 2:1)
  • ἀποθανόντοσ δὲ Ἀκταίου Κέκροψ ἐκδέχεται τὴν ἀρχὴν θυγατρὶ συνοικῶν Ἀκταίου, καί οἱ γίνονται θυγατέρεσ μὲν Ἕρση καὶ Ἄγλαυροσ καὶ Πάνδροσοσ, υἱὸσ δὲ Ἐρυσίχθων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 12:3)

Synonyms

  1. on the coast

Related

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

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