Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολιοῦχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιοῦχος πολιοῦχον

Structure: πολιουχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/xw

Sense

  1. protecting a city

Examples

  • ἐνθεῦτεν δὲ ἐξ ἱροῦ Ἀθηναίησ πολιούχου ἀποσπασθεὶσ ὑπὸ Χίων ἐξεδόθη· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 160 4:2)
  • ἐνταῦθα Ἀθηνᾶσ ἱερὸν πεποίηται Πολιούχου καλουμένησ καὶ Χαλκιοίκου τῆσ αὐτῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. protecting a city

Related

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

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