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μέδιμνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέδιμνος

Structure: μεδιμν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the medimnus (a corn-measure)

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

  • δίκαιοσ δ̓ ἂν εἰήν τυχεῖν παρὰ σοῦ τῶν μεγίστων τοσούτοισ σε μεδίμνοισ δωρησάμενοσ ἐπισήμου χρυσίου. (Lucian, 53:2)
  • κατέδραμον καὶ ἀναστάτουσ ἐποίησα τοσαύτασ πόλεισ καὶ τὴν πεδινὴν Ἰταλίαν ἐχειρωσάμην καὶ μέχρι τῶν προαστείων τῆσ προὐχούσησ πόλεωσ ἦλθον καὶ τοσούτουσ ἀπέκτεινα μιᾶσ ἡμέρασ, ὥστε τοὺσ δακτυλίουσ αὐτῶν μεδίμνοισ ἀπομετρῆσαι καὶ τοὺσ ποταμοὺσ γεφυρῶσαι νεκροῖσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:1)
  • ὁ δ’ Ιἕρων καὶ Ἀρχίμηλον τὸν τῶν ἐπιγραμμάτων ποιητὴν γράψαντα εἰσ τὴν ναῦν ἐπίγραμμα χιλίοισ πυρῶν μεδίμνοισ, οὓσ καὶ παρέπεμψεν ἰδίοισ δαπανήμασιν εἰσ τὸν Πειραιᾶ, ἐτίμησεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 1:3)

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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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