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ἡδύοινος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: hēdyoinos

Principal Part: ἡδύοινος ἡδύοινον

Structure: ἡδυοιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. producing sweet wine, dealers in sweet wine

Examples

  • ἐπιεικῶς δὲ ἡ Θρᾴκη ἐθαυμάζετο ὡς ἡδύοινος, καὶ συνόλως τὰ ἀπὸ πλησίον αὐτῆς χωρία: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 56 2:8)
  • οὐχ οἱ πολύσιτοι, οὐχ οἱ πολύοινοι οὐχ οἱ ἡδύοινοι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 4:2)
  • τὰ γὰρ πιτυώδη χωρία λέγουσιν ἡδύοινον τὴν: (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 9:1)
  • φέρει γὰρ ἡ γῆ καὶ κριθὰς καὶ πυροὺς καὶ ὄσπρια πάντα καὶ μελίνας καὶ σήσαμα καὶ σῦκα ἀρκοῦντα καὶ ἀμπέλους πολλὰς καὶ ἡδυοίνους καὶ τἆλλα πάντα πλὴν ἐλαῶν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. producing sweet wine

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

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