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φύξιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: φύξιον φύξιου

Structure: φυξι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a place of refuge

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

  • αὐτίκα δ’ ἔγνω Κίρκη φύξιον οἶτον ἀλιτροσύνασ τε φόνοιο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 12:9)
  • τὸν δὲ Φίλιον καὶ Ἱκέσιον καὶ Ξένιον καὶ Φύξιον καὶ πάντα τὰτοιαῦτα ἁπλῶσ ἡ φιλανθρωπία καὶ τὸ χρηστὸν ἐμφαινόμενα προσομοιοῖ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 99:6)
  • παραγενόμενοι δ’ ἐπὶ τὸ Φύξιον καλούμενον τοὺσ μὲν εὐζώνουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἱππεῖσ ἐφῆκαν εἰσ τὴν καταδρομήν, τὰ δὲ βαρέα τῶν ὅπλων ἔκρυψαν περὶ τὸν προειρημένον τόπον. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 95 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a place of refuge

Related

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

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