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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

  • Λαμψακηνοὶ δὲ προσδοκίμων οὐσῶν τριηρῶν πολλῶν πρὸσ αὐτούσ, ὄντοσ μεδίμνου τῶν ἀλφίτων τετραδράχμου, προσέταξαν τοῖσ ἀγοραίοισ πωλεῖν ἑξάδραχμον, καὶ τοῦ ἐλαίου τὸν χοᾶ ὄντα δραχμῶν <τριῶν>, τεττάρων καὶ τριωβόλου, τοῦ τε οἴνου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὡσαύτωσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 36:1)
  • εἰσ μέν γε τὰ τιμήματα τῶν θυσιῶν λογίζεται πρόβατον καὶ δραχμὴν ἀντὶ μεδίμνου· (Plutarch, , chapter 23 3:1)
  • τοῖσ νεωτέροισ τοσούτων ἐτῶν νόμοσ οὐκ ἐᾷ συμβάλλειν ὡσ ἀπίστοισ οὖσιν, οὐδὲ γυναικὶ παῤ Ἀθηναίοισ συναλλάσσειν πλὴν ἄχρι μεδίμνου κριθῶν, διὰ τὸ τῆσ γνώμησ ἀσθενέσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 16:4)
  • ἡ δὲ ἀρτάβη, μέτρον ἐὸν Περσικόν, χωρέει μεδίμνου Ἀττικοῦ πλέον χοίνιξι τρισὶ Ἀττικῇσι, ἵπποι δὲ οἱ αὐτοῦ ἦσαν ἰδίῃ, πάρεξ τῶν πολεμιστηρίων, οἱ μὲν ἀναβαίνοντεσ τὰσ θηλέασ ὀκτακόσιοι, αἱ δὲ βαινόμεναι ἑξακισχίλιαι καὶ μυρίαι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 192 4:1)

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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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