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παρόρειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρόρειος παρόρειον

Structure: παρορει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/ros

Sense

  1. along a mountain

Examples

  • τοσαύτην δ’ ὀπώραν ἐκδίδωσιν ἡ παρόρειοσ τὴν αὐτοφυῆ καὶ ἀγρίαν σταφυλῆσ τε καὶ ὄχνησ καὶ μήλου καὶ τῶν καρυωδῶν ὥστε κατὰ πᾶσαν τοῦ ἔτουσ ὡρ́αν ἀφθόνωσ εὐπορεῖν τοὺσ ἐξιόντασ ἐπὶ τὴν ὕλην, τοτὲ μὲν ἔτι κρεμαμένων τῶν καρπῶν ἐν τοῖσ δένδρεσι, τοτὲ δ’ ἐν τῇ πεπτωκυίᾳ φυλλάδι καὶ ὑπ’ αὐτῇ κειμένων βαθείᾳ καὶ πολλῇ κεχυμένῃ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 30:11)
  • ἔστι δ’ ἡ μὲν παρόρειοσ εὐδαίμων ἱκανῶσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 46:1)

Synonyms

  1. along a mountain

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

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