Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῖος πῖη πῖον

Structure: πι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic form of pi/wn

Sense

  1. unctuous

Declension

First/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

  • κεκολάφθαι γὰρ ἐπ̓ αὐτῇ ἄνθρωπον μὲν τινα οἱο͂ν τὸν Τάνταλον γράφουσιν ἐν λίμνῃ ἑστῶτα καὶ ἀρυομενον τοῦ ὕδατοσ, ὡσ πίοι δή, τὸ θηρίον δὲ τὴν διψάδα ἐμπεφυκὸσ αὐτῷ περιεσπειρᾶσθαι τῷ ποδί, καί τινασ γυναῖκασ ὑδροφορούσασ ἅμα πολλὰσ καταχεῖν τὸ ὕδωρ αὐτοῦ πλησίον δὲ ᾠὰ κεῖσθαι οἱᾶ τῶν στρουθῶν ἐκείνων, οὓσ ἔφην θηρᾶν τοὺσ Γαράμαντασ· (Lucian, Dipsades 10:1)
  • εἰ δὲ πίοι ἀθρόον ὑπερασθμαίνουσα, καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀσφαλέσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 14 4:1)
  • τῷ δὲ παρασίτῳ οὔτε μάγειρόσ ἐστιν ᾧ χαλεπήναι, οὔτε ἀγρὸσ οὔτε οἶκοσ ^ οὔτε ἀργύρια, ὑπὲρ ὧν ἀπολλυμένων ἀχθεσθείη, ὥστε καὶ φάγοι καὶ πίοι μόνοσ οὗτοσ ὑπὸ μηδενόσ, ὧν ἐκείνουσ ἀνάγκη, ἐνοχλούμενοσ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 12:22)
  • εἴ τισ τὸν γε πίοι καὶ ἀπότροποσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 3 2:8)
  • "τῷ μὲν γὰρ Πέρσῃ πᾶσαν γῆν περιέρχονται μαστεύοντεσ τί ἂν ἡδέωσ πίοι, μυρίοι δὲ τεχνῶνται τί ἂν ἡδέωσ φάγοι ὅπωσ γε μὴν καταδάρθοι οὐδ’ ἂν εἴποι τισ ὅσα πραγματεύονται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 242)

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

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