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πλησιόχωρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλησιόχωρος πλησιόχωρον

Structure: πλησιοχωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. near a country, bordering upon, persons who live in the next country, next neighbours

Examples

  • ἐλέησον καὶ σῶσον νυνὶ τὸν σαυτοῦ πλησιόχωρον· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, antepirrheme13)
  • διεπρεσβεύσατο δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ἄλλασ πόλεισ, ἀξιῶν συμμαχεῖν ὡσ μέλλοντοσ αὐτοῦ τὴν πλησιόχωρον Λιβύην καταστρέφεσθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 19 5:1)
  • εὐθὺσ δ’ οἱ μὲν εἰσ τὴν Πισιδικὴν καὶ Λυκίαν καὶ τὴν πλησιόχωρον παρελθόντεσ ἐξενολόγουν ἐπιμελῶσ, οἱ δὲ τὴν Κιλικίαν ἐπεπορεύοντο, ἄλλοι δὲ τὴν Κοίλην Συρίαν καὶ Φοινίκην, τινὲσ δὲ τὰσ ἐν τῇ Κύπρῳ πόλεισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 61 4:2)
  • πλησιόχωρον δ’ ὁρῶντεσ οὖσαν τὴν τῶν Μαντινέων πόλιν καὶ πλήθουσαν ἀνδρῶν ἀλκίμων, ὑπώπτευσαν αὐτῆσ τὴν αὔξησιν τὴν γινομένην ἐκ τῆσ εἰρήνησ, καὶ τὰ φρονήματα τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἔσπευδον ταπεινῶσαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 5 4:2)
  • αὐξηθέντεσ γὰρ οἱ Κελτίβηρεσ ἐποίησαν καὶ τὴν πλησιόχωρον πᾶσαν ὁμώνυμον ἑαυτοῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 22:3)

Synonyms

  1. near a country

Related

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

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