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ἐπίνειον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίνειον ἐπίνειου

Structure: ἐπινει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: nau=s

Sense

  1. the sea-port, the state harbour

Declension

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

  • ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ μὲν δὴ Αἰγειράταισ οὐδέν ἐστιν ἐσ μνήμην, ὁδὸσ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἐπινείου δύο σταδίων καὶ δέκα ἐσ τὴν ἄνω πόλιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 2:2)
  • ταύτησ δὲ ἡμίσεια ἐσ Πελλήνην ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπινείου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 20:3)
  • ἀνασχὼν δὲ ἔνθα Πηγὰσ ὀνομάζουσιν οἱ Ἀρκάδεσ καὶ παρὰ γῆν τε τὴν Πισαίαν καὶ παρὰ Ὀλυμπίαν ἐξελθών, ἐκδίδωσιν ὑπὲρ Κυλλήνησ ἐπινείου τοῦ Ἠλείων ἐσ τὴν θάλασσαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 54 4:1)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ ταῖσ ἀναχύσεσιν ἡ Ἄστα, εἰσ ἣν οἱ Γαδιτανοὶ συνίασι μάλιστα, ὑπερκειμένην τοῦ ἐπινείου τῆσ νήσου σταδίουσ οὐ πολὺ πλείουσ τῶν ἑκατόν. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 4:7)
  • ἑξῆσ δ’ ἐστὶ Μεταπόντιον, εἰσ ἣν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπινείου τῆσ Ἡρακλείασ εἰσὶ στάδιοι τετταράκοντα πρὸσ τοῖσ ἑκατόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 30:1)

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

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