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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

  • Δευκαλίων δὲ ἐν τῇ λάρνακι διὰ τῆσ θαλάσσησ φερόμενοσ <ἐφ’> ἡμέρασ ἐννέα καὶ νύκτασ <τὰσ> ἴσασ τῷ Παρνασῷ προσίσχει, κἀκεῖ τῶν ὄμβρων παῦλαν λαβόντων ἐκβὰσ θύει Διὶ φυξίῳ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 7 2:6)
  • ὁ δὲ τὸν χρυσόμαλλον κριὸν Διὶ θύει φυξίῳ, τὸ δὲ τούτου δέρασ Αἰήτῃ δίδωσιν· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 1:13)
  • τὸν μὲν ἔπειτ’ ἔρρεξεν ἑῇσ ὑποθημοσύνῃσιν Φυξίῳ ἐκ πάντων Κρονίδῃ Διί. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 19:13)
  • ἐγγύθι δ’ αἰθαλόεντα πελεν βωμοῖο θέμεθλα, ὅν ῥά ποτ’ Αἰολίδησ Διὶ Φυξίῳ εἵσατο Φρίξοσ, ῥέζων κεῖνο τέρασ παγχρύσεον, ὥσ οἱ ἐείπεν Ἑρμείασ πρόφρων ξυμβλήμενοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:3)

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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