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Παίων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Παίων Παίονος

Structure: Παιων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a Paionian
  2. an inhabitant of Paionia

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλὰ μὴν τόν γε Παίονα καὶ τὸν Ἰλλυριὸν καὶ ἁπλῶσ τούτουσ ἅπαντασ ἡγεῖσθαι χρὴ αὐτονόμουσ ἥδιον ἂν καὶ ἐλευθέρουσ ἢ δούλουσ εἶναι· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 29:1)
  • Αὐταριεῖ δὲ αὐτῷ Παννόνιον ἡγοῦνται παῖδα ἢ Παίονα γενέσθαι, καὶ Σκορδίσκον Παίονι καὶ Τριβαλλόν, ὧν ὁμοίωσ τὰ ἔθνη παρώνυμα εἶναι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 2:5)
  • οἱ δὲ δὴ μᾶλλόν τι εἰκότα λέγοντεσ Ἐνδυμίωνι λαβόντι Ἀστεροδίαν γυναῖκα ‐ οἱ δὲ τὴν Ἰτώνου τοῦ Ἀμφικτύονοσ Χρομίαν, ἄλλοι δὲ Ὑπερίππην τὴν Ἀρκάδοσ ‐ , γενέσθαι δ’ οὖν φασιν αὐτῷ Παίονα καὶ Ἐπειόν τε καὶ Αἰτωλὸν καὶ θυγατέρα ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ Εὐρυκύδαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 7:2)
  • τῶν δὲ ἀδελφῶν οἱ τὸν μὲν καταμεῖναί φασιν αὐτοῦ, Παίονα δὲ ἀχθόμενον τῇ ἥσσῃ φυγεῖν ὡσ πορρωτάτω, καὶ τὴν ὑπὲρ Ἀξιοῦ ποταμοῦ χώραν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ Παιονίαν ὀνομασθῆναι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 8:1)

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