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καταχθόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταχθόνιος καταχθόνιον

Structure: καταχθονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. subterranean, Dii Manes

Examples

  • καὶ εἴ τισ ἄρα τὰσ ἀνθρωπίνουσ ψυχὰσ ἀπολυθείσασ τοῦ σώματοσ ὑποδέξεται τόποσ, οὐχ ὁ καταχθόνιοσ καὶ ἀφεγγὴσ ὑποδέξεται τὴν ἐμήν, ἐν ᾧ φασι τοὺσ κακοδαίμονασ οἰκεῖν, οὐδὲ τὸ λεγόμενον τῆσ Λήθησ πεδίον, ἀλλ’ ὁ μετέωροσ καὶ καθαρὸσ αἰθήρ, ἐν ᾧ τοὺσ ἐκ θεῶν φύντασ οἰκεῖν λόγοσ εὐδαίμονα καὶ μακάριον ἔχοντασ βίον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 52 6:1)
  • θεοὶ δ’ ἐτέλειον ἐπαρὰσ Ζεύσ τε καταχθόνιοσ καὶ ἐπαινὴ Περσεφόνεια. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 26:3)
  • Ζεύσ τε καταχθόνιοσ καὶ ἐπαινὴ Περσεφόνεια. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 6:4)

Related

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

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