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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

  • "καὶ μαθὼν οὕτω καλούμενον παρὰ τοῖσ Μοισοῖσ καὶ Παίοσιν ὑπεμνήσθην ἐκ τῶν ὑπ’ Ἀριστοφάνουσ εἰρημένων τὸν ὄρνιθα, νομίζων δὲ καὶ παρὰ τῷ πολυμαθεστάτῳ Ἀριστοτέλει μνήμησ ἠξιῶσθαι τὸ ζῷον ἐν τῇ πολυταλάντῳ πραγματείᾳ ὀκτακόσια γὰρ εἰληφέναι τάλαντα παρἈλεξάνδρου τὸν Σταγιρίτην λόγοσ ἔχει εἰσ τὴν περὶ τῶν ζῴων ἱστορίαν ὡσ οὐδὲν εὑρ͂ον περὶ αὐτοῦ λεγόμενον, ἔχαιρον ἔχων ἐχεγγυώτατον μάρτυρα τὸν χαρίεντα Ἀριστοφάνη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 58 1:13)
  • ὅθεν ἔστι καὶ νῦν Σκορδίσκων γένοσ ἐν Παίοσιν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 2:9)
  • ἀπολυθεὶσ δὲ τοῦ πρὸσ Ἀθηναίουσ πολέμου καὶ πυνθανόμενοσ τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Παιόνων Ἆγιν τετελευτηκέναι ὑπέλαβε καιρὸν ἔχειν ἐπιθέσθαι τοῖσ Παίοσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 3 13:1)

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