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μόδιος?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: modios

Principal Part: μόδιος

Structure: μοδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Measure for the grains, bushel of 16 sextarii, the third of an amphora (about 25 L) (= 1/6 μέδιμνος)
  2. Measure of length (= 200 ὄργυια, ὀργυιας)

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

  • Πέμπει δ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἀγρίππας δύναμιν καὶ στρατηγὸν ἐπ αὐτῆς Αἴκουον Μόδιον Γάμαλα τὸ φρούριον ἐξαιρήσοντας. (Flavius Josephus, 138:1)
  • Φίλιππος πυθόμενος μεθεστάναι μὲν Οὐάρον ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως Ἀγρίππα, διάδοχον δὲ ἀφῖχθαι Μόδιον Αἴκουον ἄνδρα φίλον αὐτῷ καὶ συνήθη πάλαι, γράφει πρὸς τοῦτον τὰς καθ ἑαυτὸν τύχας ἀπαγγέλλων καὶ παρακαλῶν τὰ παρ αὐτοῦ πεμφθέντα γράμματα πρὸς τοὺς βασιλέας ἀποστεῖλαι. (Flavius Josephus, 216:1)
  • ἐν βραχεῖ δὲ χρόνῳ δι ἑαυτοῦ τε καὶ τῶν ἑταίρων πολλὴν κατακομίσας ἀγορὰν διεμέτρει τοῖς πολίταις, ἀντὶ δώδεκα δραχμῶν διδράχμου ἀπομετρῶν τὸν μόδιον: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 1 1:2)
  • ἔπειτα ἐγκύμων ἐκ τοῦ δαίμονος, ὡς ἅπασιν ἐδόκει, γενομένη τίκτει παῖδα Μόδιον ὄνομα, Φαβίδιον ἐπίκλησιν, ὃς ἀνδρωθεὶς μορφήν τε οὐ κατ ἄνθρωπον ἀλλὰ δαιμόνιον ἴσχει, καὶ τὰ πολέμια πάντων γίνεται λαμπρότατος: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 48 3:2)
  • οὐδὲ καίουσιν λύχνον καὶ τιθέασιν αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τὸν μόδιον ἀλλ ἐπὶ τὴν λυχνίαν, καὶ λάμπει πᾶσιν τοῖς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ. (, chapter 1 172:1)

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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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