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μόδιος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

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)

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

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