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

  • ἐὰν δέ τισ ἐκδοὺσ αὖ δημιουργῷ μὴ ἀποδῷ τοὺσ μισθοὺσ ὀρθῶσ κατὰ τὴν ἔννομον ὁμολογίαν γενομένην, Δία δὲ πολιοῦχον καὶ Ἀθηνᾶν κοινωνοὺσ πολιτείασ ἀτιμάζων, βραχὺ κέρδοσ ἀγαπῶν, λύῃ μεγάλασ κοινωνίασ, νόμοσ ὁ βοηθῶν ἔστω τῷ τῆσ πόλεωσ συνδέσμῳ μετὰ θεῶν· (Plato, Laws, book 11 54:1)

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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