Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἴσθμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἴσθμιος ἴσθμιη ἴσθμιον

Structure: ἰσθμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Isthmian

Examples

  • υσ ἵνα κ[ ]γαίασ Ἰσθμί[ασ ]ν, εὐβούλου ν̣ (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 1:4)
  • τεμένη δ’, ἵν’ αὐτῶν σώμαθ’ ἡγνίσθη πυρί, μέθεσ παρ’ αὐτὴν τρίοδον Ἰσθμίασ θεοῦ· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:7)
  • σὺ δ’ Ἰσθμίασ γῆσ αὐχέν’ ἐμβαίνω ποδὶ χώρει πρὸσ ὄχθον Κεκροπίασ εὐδαίμονα. (Euripides, episode, anapests 5:7)
  • οὐχὶ Λαὶσ μὲν τελευτῶσ1’ ἀπέθανεν βινουμένη, Ἰσθμιὰσ δὲ καὶ Νέαιρα κατασέσηπε καὶ Φίλα; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 52 2:5)
  • τύραννον αὐτὸν οὑπιχώριοι χθονὸσ τῆσ Ἰσθμίασ στήσουσιν, ὡσ ηὐδᾶτ’ ἐκεῖ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode21)

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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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