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φθία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθία

Sense

  1. Phthia

Examples

  • τοῦ δὲ παῖσ, ὅνπερ μόνον ἀθανάτα τίκτεν ἐν Φθίᾳ Θέτισ, ἐν πολέμῳ τόξοισ ἀπὸ ψυχὰν λιπὼν ὦρσεν πυρὶ καιόμενοσ ἐκ Δαναῶν γόον. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 31:1)
  • Θέτισ δὲ κρατεῖ Φθίᾳ· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 4 15:2)
  • Πηλεὺσ ὁ Αἰακοῦ ἐν Φθίᾳ οὐ τῶν αὐτῶν τούτων ἦρχεν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 21:4)
  • τόλμα καὶ εἰσ ἀίδαν καὶ ἐσ οὐρανὸν ἄνδρα κομίζει, ἃ καὶ Σωσάνδρου παῖδ’ ἐπέβασε πυρᾶσ, Δωρόθεον Φθίᾳ γὰρ ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ ἰάλλων ἐρραίσθη Σηκῶν μεσσόθι καὶ Χιμέρασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5291)
  • ἐν Φθίᾳ δὲ τῇ Θεσσαλῶν πυγμῆσ μὲν ἢ παγκρατίου παρῆκε τὴν σπουδήν, ἐφρόντιζε δὲ ὅπωσ καὶ ἐπὶ δρόμῳ ἐμφανὴσ ἐν Ἕλλησιν εἰή, καὶ τοὺσ ἐσελθόντασ ἐσ τὸν δόλιχον ἐκράτησεν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. Phthia

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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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