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προσάλπειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσάλπειος προσάλπειον

Structure: προσαλπει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: A)/lpeis

Sense

  1. near the Alps

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν προσαλπείων ἐθνῶν ἀρξάμενοι καὶ τῶν πρὸσ αὐτοῖσ ὀρῶν τῶν Ἀπεννίνων, ἔπειθ’ ὑπερβάντεσ ταῦτα τὴν ἐντὸσ ἐπήλθομεν πᾶσαν, ὅση μεταξὺ κεῖται τοῦ Τυρρηνικοῦ πελάγουσ καὶ τῶν Ἀπεννίνων ὀρῶν τῶν κεκλιμένων πρὸσ τὸν Ἀδρίαν μέχρι Σαυνιτῶν [καὶ] Καμπανῶν, νῦν ἐπανιόντεσ δηλώσομεν τὰ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσι τούτοισ οἰκοῦντα καὶ ταῖσ ὑπωρείαισ τῆσ τε ἐκτὸσ μέχρι τῆσ παραλίασ τῆσ Ἀδριατικῆσ καὶ τῆσ ἐντόσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. near the Alps

Similar forms

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

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