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προάστιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: προάστιον προάστιου

Structure: προαστι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = proa/steion, Soph.

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • κάτω, φοινικορόδοισ ἐν λειμώνεσσι προάστιον αὐτῶν καὶ λιβάνῳ σκιαρὸν καὶ χρυσοκάρποισι βεβριθόσ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 35 1:1)
  • ἡ πτωχῶν χαρίεσσα πανοπλίη ἀρτολάγυνοσ αὕτη, καὶ δροσερῶν ἐκ πετάλων στέφανοσ, καὶ τοῦτο φθιμένοιο προάστιον ἱερὸν ὀστεῦν ἐγκεφάλου, ψυχῆσ φρούριον ἀκρότατον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 381)
  • ἐπεὶ νῦν γε καὶ τὰ πρὸ τῶνπυλῶν ἄγρια παντελῶσ ἐστι καὶ αἰσχρὰ δεινῶσ, ὥσπερ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ τῇ βαθυτάτῃ, οὐχ ὡσ προάστιον πόλεωσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 46:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ καταφρονητικῶσ οἱ Ὀλύνθιοι καὶ εἰσ τὸ προάστιον καὶ εἰσ αὐτὰσ τὰσ πύλασ ἤλαυνον, τότε δὴ συντεταγμένουσ ἔχων ἐξελαύνει. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 2:4)
  • ὁ μέντοι Ιἄσων ἀπιὼν διὰ τῆσ Φωκίδοσ Υἁμπολιτῶν μὲν τό τε προάστιον εἷλε καὶ τὴν χώραν ἐπόρθησε καὶ ἀπέκτεινε πολλούσ· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 32:1)

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

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