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ἄκτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκτιος

Structure: ἀκτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)kth/

Sense

  1. haunting the shore

Declension

First/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

  • φθάνει δὲ Καῖσαρ, Ἀντωνίου περὶ τὸ Ἄκτιον ὁρμοῦντοσ, ἐν ᾧ τόπῳ νῦν ἡ Νικόπολισ ἵδρυται, διαβαλὼν τὸν Ιὄνιον καὶ τῆσ Ἠπείρου χωρίον ὃ Τορύνη καλεῖται κατασχών· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 62 3:3)
  • Ἀντώνιοσ δέ, ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ τῶν πολεμίων ἐπιπλεόντων, φοβηθεὶσ μὴ τῶν ἐπιβατῶν ἐρήμουσ ἕλωσι τὰσ ναῦσ, τοὺσ μὲν ἐρέτασ ὁπλίσασ ἐπὶ τῶν καταστρωμάτων παρέταξεν ὄψεωσ ἕνεκα, τοὺσ δὲ ταρσοὺσ τῶν νεῶν ἐγείρασ καὶ πτερώσασ ἑκατέρωθεν ἐν τῷ στόματι περὶ τὸ Ἄκτιον ἀντιπρῴρουσ συνεῖχεν, ὡσ ἐνήρεισ καὶ παρεσκευασμένασ ἀμύνεσθαι. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 63 1:1)
  • οὐκ αὐτὸν τὸν Πᾶνα τὸν ἄκτιον, οὐ τέ γε Λάκων τὰν βαίταν ἀπέδυσ’ ὁ Καλαιθίδοσ, ἢ κατὰ τήνασ τᾶσ πέτρασ ὤνθρωπε μανεὶσ ἐσ Κρᾶθιν ἁλοίμαν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 15)
  • ὃν Σμύρνα καὶ δρῦσ Περγάμου κατέστεφεν, Δελφοί, Κόρινθοσ, Ἦλισ, Ἄργοσ, Ἄκτιον λοιπῶν δ’ ἀέθλων ἢν ἐρευνήσῃσ κράτοσ, καὶ τὴν Λίβυσσαν ἐξαριθμήσεισ κόνιν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 52 1:1)
  • ἄραντεσ δὲ αὐτόθεν ἐπί τε Ἄκτιον ἐλθόντεσ ὁρμίζονται τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου πρὸσ τὸ ἀκρωτήριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 50 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. haunting the shore

Related

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

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