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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

  • θύννων δ’ ὡραίων Βυζάντιον ἔπλετο μήτηρ καὶ σκόμβρων βυθίων τε καὶ εὐχόρτου λικιβάττεω καὶ Πάριον κολιῶν κυδρὴ τροφὸσ ἔσκε πολίχνη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 84 1:2)
  • ἐν δὲ τούτῳ ἥ τε γῆ αὐτῶν ἡ πολλὴ ἐτμήθη, καὶ πολίχνη τισ ἐπιθαλάττιοσ ἑάλω, ᾗ ἐπινείῳ τε καὶ ἀγορᾷ τῶν εἰσ τὸν βίον ἀναγκαίων ἐχρῶντο, ἐκ θαλάττησ τε καὶ διὰ λῃστηρίων τὰσ πολλὰσ ἐπαγόμενοι ὠφελείασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 56 7:2)
  • Μόνη δὲ Γίσχαλα πολίχνη τῆσ Γαλιλαίασ ἀχείρωτοσ κατελείπετο, τοῦ μὲν πλήθουσ εἰρηνικὰ φρονοῦντοσ, καὶ γὰρ ἦσαν τὸ πλέον γεωργοὶ καὶ ταῖσ ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν ἐλπίσιν ἀεὶ προσανέχοντεσ, παρεισεφθαρμένου δ’ αὐτοῖσ οὐκ ὀλίγου λῃστρικοῦ τάγματοσ, ᾧ τινεσ καὶ τοῦ πολιτικοῦ συνενόσουν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 97:1)
  • ὧν καὶ τὰ μνημεῖα μέχρι νῦν ἐν τῇδε τῇ πολίχνῃ δείκνυται πάνυ καλῆσ μαρμάρου καὶ φιλοτίμωσ εἰργασμένα. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 602:1)
  • ἰόντων δὲ ὡσ ἐπὶ Κυπαρισσιὰσ ἀπὸ Ἀνδανίασ Πολίχνη τέ ἐστι καλουμένη καὶ ποταμὸσ Ἠλέκτρα καὶ Κοῖοσ ῥέουσι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 11:3)

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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