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ἁλίζωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁλίζωνος ἁλίζωνη ἁλίζωνον

Structure: ἁλιζων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls, zw/nh

Sense

  1. sea-girt

Examples

  • καταλέγεσθαι δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τό τε τῶν Τρώων καὶ τῶν νῦν ὀνομαζομένων Παφλαγόνων καὶ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν καὶ Καρῶν καὶ Λυκίων, Μῄονάσ τε ἀντὶ Λυδῶν καὶ ἄλλουσ ἀγνῶτασ, οἱο͂ν Ἁλιζῶνασ καὶ Καύκωνασ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 46:2)
  • διὰ τί δ’ ἐν τοῖσ μεσογαίοισ ἔταξε τοὺσ Χάλυβασ, οὓσ ὁ ποιητὴσ Ἁλιζῶνασ ἐκάλεσεν, ὥσπερ καὶ ἡμεῖσ ἀπεδείξαμεν; (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 48:7)
  • φήσασ δὲ ἀγνώτων τινῶν μεμνῆσθαι τὸν ποιητήν, Καύκωνασ μὲν ὀρθῶσ λέγει καὶ Σολύμουσ καὶ Κητείουσ καὶ Λέλεγασ καὶ Κίλικασ τοὺσ ἐκ Θήβησ πεδίου, τοὺσ δ’ Ἁλιζῶνασ αὐτὸσ πλάττει, μᾶλλον δ’ οἱ πρῶτοι τοὺσ Ἁλιζῶνασ ἀγνοήσαντεσ τίνεσ εἰσί, καὶ μεταγράφοντεσ πλεοναχῶσ καὶ πλάττοντεσ τὴν τοῦ ἀργύρου γενέθλην καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ μέταλλα, ἐκλελειμμένα ἅπαντα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 56:1)

Synonyms

  1. sea-girt

Related

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

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