Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπιος ἄπιη ἄπιον

Structure: ἀπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: The first sense has short a, the latter a_.

Sense

  1. far away, far off, distant
  2. Apian, Peloponnesian, the Peloponnese, Argolis

Examples

  • ἱλεοῦμαι μὲν Ἀπίαν βοῦνιν, καρβᾶνα δ’ αὐδὰν εὖ, γᾶ, κοννεῖσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, ephymnion 11)
  • ἱλεοῦμαι μὲν Ἀπίαν βοῦνιν, καρβᾶνα δ’ αὐδὰν εὖ, γᾶ, κοννεῖσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, ephymnion 11)
  • πῶσ γὰρ ἤ τιν’ ἀπίαν γᾶν ἢ πόντιον κλύδων’ ἀλώμεναι, βίου δύσοιστον ἕξομεν τροφάν; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 19)
  • Ἆπισ μὲν οὖν εἰσ τυραννίδα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ μεταστήσασ δύναμιν καὶ βίαιοσ ὢν τύραννοσ, ὀνομάσασ ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν Πελοπόννησον Ἀπίαν, ὑπὸ Θελξίονοσ καὶ Τελχῖνοσ ἐπιβουλευθεὶσ ἄπαισ ἀπέθανε, καὶ νομισθεὶσ θεὸσ ἐκλήθη Σάραπισ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 1 1:5)
  • παραγενόμενοσ δὲ Πέλοψ ἐπ’ ὠκεανὸν καὶ ἁγνισθεὶσ ὑπὸ Ἡφαίστου, ἐπανελθὼν εἰσ Πῖσαν τῆσ Ἤλιδοσ τὴν Οἰνομάου βασιλείαν λαμβάνει, χειρωσάμενοσ τὴν πρότερον Ἀπίαν καὶ Πελασγιῶτιν λεγομένην, ἣν ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ Πελοπόννησον ἐκάλεσεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 2 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. far away

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

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