Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παλαιόγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλαιόγονος παλαιόγονον

Structure: παλαιογον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = palai/gonos, Anth.

Sense

Examples

  • ἣν μάντιν λαχάνοισι παλαιόγονοι ἐνέπουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 9 2:2)
  • οὐχὶ πέδον Σμύρνησ ἐλοχεύσατο θεῖον Ὅμηρον, οὐ Κολοφὼν τρυφερῆσ ἄστρον Ιηὀνίησ, οὐ Χίοσ, οὐκ Αἴγυπτοσ ἐύσποροσ, οὐ Κύπροσ ἁγνή, οὐ νῆσοσ κραναὴ Λαρτιάδαο πάτρη, οὐκ Ἄργοσ Δαναοῖο, κυκλωπείη τε Μυκήνη, οὐδὲ τὸ Κεκροπιδῶν ἄστυ παλαιογόνων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2951)

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

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