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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

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν τῶν κριθῶν Σικελικὸσ μέδιμνόσ ἐστι δραχμῆσ, ὁ δὲ τῶν πυρῶν ἐννέα ὀβολῶν Ἀλεξανδρεινῶν τοῦ δ’ οἴνου δραχμῆσ ὁ μετρητὴσ καὶ ἔριφοσ ὁ μέτριοσ ὀβολοῦ καὶ λαγώσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8 1:2)
  • διὸ εἰσ παροιμίαν ἐλήλυθεν ὁ μέδιμνοσ τῶν ἁλῶν· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 78:2)
  • τὸν δ’ ἀποκρίνασθαι μύριοί εἰσιν ἀριθμόν, ἀτὰρ μέτρον γε μέδιμνοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 48:6)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν τῶν κριθῶν Σικελικὸσ μέδιμνόσ ἐστι δραχμῆσ, ὁ δὲ τῶν πυρῶν ἐννέα ὀβολῶν Ἀλεξανδρεινῶν· (Polybius, Histories, book 34, iv. de lusitania 7:1)

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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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