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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

  • τοῖσ φίλοισ δὲ ὑμῖν, Σαμίππῳ μὲν εἴκοσι μεδίμνουσ ἐπισήμου χρυσίου παραμετρῆσαι τὸν οἰκονόμον ἐκέλευσα ἄν, Τιμολάῳ δὲ πέντε χοίνικασ, Λυκίνῳ δὲ χοίνικα, ἀπομεμαγμένην καὶ ταύτην, ὅτι λάλοσ ἐστὶ καὶ ἐπισκώπτει μου τὴν εὐχήν. (Lucian, 43:1)
  • χρυσὸν μὲν οὖν καὶ θησαυροὺσ καὶ μεδίμνουσ νομίσματοσ ἢ βασιλείασ καὶ πολέμουσ καὶ δείματα ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, ἃ εἰκότωσ διέβαλεσ, οὐκ αἰτήσομαι· (Lucian, 70:3)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀργύριον μηδὲ ἀριθμῷ ἄγειν αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ μεδίμνῳ ἀπομεμετρημένον πολλοὺσ μεδίμνουσ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:12)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν μὲν δείσωσ’ αὐτοί, τὴν Εὔβοιαν διδόασιν ὑμῖν καὶ σῖτον ὑφίστανται κατὰ πεντήκοντα μεδίμνουσ ποριεῖν· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, antepirrheme 1:14)
  • ἔδοσαν δ’ οὐπώποτέ σοι πλὴν πρώην πέντε μεδίμνουσ, καὶ ταῦτα μόλισ ξενίασ φεύγων ἔλαβεσ κατὰ χοίνικα κριθῶν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, antepirrheme 1:15)

Related

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

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