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προσάρκτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσάρκτιος προσάρκτιον

Structure: προσαρκτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/rktos

Sense

  1. towards the north

Examples

  • τῶν δὲ Γερμανῶν, ὡσ εἶπον, οἱ μὲν προσάρκτιοι παροικοῦσι τῷ ὠκεανῷ, γνωρίζονται δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκβολῶν τοῦ Ῥήνου λαβόντεσ τὴν ἀρχὴν μέχρι τοῦ Ἄλβιοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 2 8:1)
  • ὑπὲρ τούτων δ’ ἤδη οἱ Θετταλοὶ καὶ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν οἱ προσάρκτιοι καὶ Ἀκαρνᾶνεσ καί τινα τῶν Ἠπειρωτικῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ τῶν Μακεδονικῶν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 3 2:11)
  • καὶ προσάρκτιοι μᾶλλον Αὄρσων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 5 12:5)

Synonyms

  1. towards the north

Related

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

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