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πολίχνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολίχνη

Structure: πολιχν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: po/lis

Sense

  1. a small town

Declension

First 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

  • ἔπειτα ἥ τε χώρα προὐνομεύθη, καὶ πολίχναι τινὲσ ἑάλωσαν, ἐξ ὧν πολλὰ καὶ σώματα καὶ χρήματα οἱ στρατιῶται ἔλαβον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 42 4:3)
  • πρὸσ δὲ ταύταισ πολίχναι συχναί, Βλήρα τε καὶ Φερεντῖνον καὶ Φαλέριοι καὶ Φαλίσκον καὶ Νεπήτα καὶ Στατωνία καὶ ἄλλαι πλείουσ, αἱ μὲν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ συνεστῶσαι, τινὲσ δὲ τῶν Ῥωμαίων οἰκισάντων ἢ ταπεινωσάντων, καθάπερ τοὺσ Ουηἴουσ πολεμήσαντασ πολλάκισ καὶ τὰσ Φιδήνασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 2 18:2)
  • ἔξω γὰρ τῆσ Σπάρτησ αἱ λοιπαὶ πολίχναι τινέσ εἰσι περὶ τριάκοντα τὸν ἀριθμόν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 4 22:3)
  • " εἰσὶ μέντοι ἔτι προϊόντι μικρὸν πολίχναι δύο τῶν Βοιωτῶν, Λάρυμνά τε, παρ’ ἣν ὁ Κηφισσὸσ ἐκδίδωσι, καὶ ἔτι ἐπέκεινα Ἁλαί, ὁμώνυμοι τοῖσ Ἀττικοῖσ δήμοισ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 2 25:2)
  • πολλαὶ δ’ εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλαι μεταξὺ πολίχναι οὐκ ἄξιαι μνήμησ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 32:17)

Synonyms

  1. a small town

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

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