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ἴσθμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἴσθμιος ἴσθμιη ἴσθμιον

Structure: ἰσθμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Isthmian

Examples

  • οὐκ ἔστιν ἰχθυηρὸν ὑπὸ σοῦ μεταλαβεῖν, συνῆχασ ἡμῶν εἰσ τὰ λάχανα τὴν πόλιν, περὶ τῶν σελίνων μαχόμεθ’, ὥσπερ Ἰσθμίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 12 4:1)
  • ὦ Μέλισσ’, εὐμαχανίαν γὰρ ἔφανασ Ἰσθμίοισ ὑμετέρασ ἀρετὰσ ὕμνῳ διώκειν· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 4 1:2)
  • νικήσασ δὲ μάχῃ τὸν Φίλιππον ἐκήρυξεν ἐν Ἰσθμίοισ, ὅτι τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἐλευθέρουσ καὶ αὐτονόμουσ ἀφίησιν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 2 1:1)
  • νικήσασ δὲ μάχῃ τὸν Φίλιππον ἐκήρυξεν ἐν Ἰσθμίοισ ὅτι τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἐλευθέρουσ καὶ αὐτονόμουσ ἀφίησιν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 21)
  • ἡ πίτυσ ἐζητεῖτο καθ’ ὃν λόγον ἐν Ἰσθμίοισ στέμμα γέγονε· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 1:1)

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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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