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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

  • Ἐλευσῖνι δὲ ἤδη πλησιόχωροσ <ἡ> καλουμένη Μεγαρίσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 39 8:1)
  • λέγει δ’ ὁ Πολύβιοσ καὶ μέχρι τῆσ Λατίνησ ἐκπίπτειν τὴν βάλανον ταύτην, εἰ μὴ ἄρα φησί καὶ ἡ Σαρδὼ φέρει καὶ ἡ πλησιόχωροσ ταύτῃ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 14:12)
  • τρισχιλίουσ δὲ Ῥωμαίων πέμψασ ᾤκισε τὴν πόλιν Αὐγοῦσταν ὁ Καῖσαρ, ἐν ᾧ ἐστρατοπέδευσε χωρίῳ ὁ Ουἄρρων, καὶ νῦν εἰρήνην ἄγει πᾶσα ἡ πλησιόχωροσ μέχρι τῶν ἄκρων ὑπερβολῶν τοῦ ὄρουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 14:19)
  • αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ βάρβαροσ καὶ πλησιόχωροσ τοῖσ μήπω κεχειρωμένοισ ἔθνεσιν ἢ λυπρὰ καὶ δυσγεώργητοσ, ὥσθ’ ὑπὸ ἀπορίασ τῶν ἄλλων ἐρυμάτων δ’ εὐπορίασ ἀφηνιάζειν καὶ ἀπειθεῖν, τῷ δήμῳ δὲ τὴν ἄλλην ὅση εἰρηνικὴ καὶ χωρὶσ ὅπλων ἄρχεσθαι ῥᾳδία· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 50:3)
  • Λέγει δ’ ὁ Πολύβιοσ καὶ μέχρι τῆσ Λατίνησ ἐκπίπτειν τὴν βάλανον ταύτην, εἰ μὴ ἄρα, φησί, καὶ ἡ Σαρδὼ φέρει καὶ ἡ πλησιόχωροσ ταύτῃ. (Polybius, Histories, book 34, iv. de lusitania 3:1)

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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