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πτόλις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτόλις πτόλιος

Structure: πτολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: epic for po/lis, Hom., Aesch., Eur.

Sense

Declension

Third 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

  • νῦν γὰρ ἑκὰσ πτόλιοσ φυγὰσ ᾤχεο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 643)
  • ἔνθα δὲ πατρὸσ ἐμοῦ τέμενοσ τεθαλυῖά τ’ ἀλωή, τόσσον ἀπὸ πτόλιοσ, ὅσσον τε γέγωνε βοήσασ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 6 26:4)
  • ἠε͂́ σ’ ἀνάρσιοι ἄνδρεσ ἐδηλήσαντ’ ἐπὶ χέρσου βοῦσ περιταμνόμενον ἠδ’ οἰῶν πώεα καλά, ἠὲ περὶ πτόλιοσ μαχεούμενον ἠδὲ γυναικῶν; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 50:4)
  • "ὢ πέπον, ὡσ μὲν ἐμῷ θυμῷ δοκεῖ εἶναι ἄριστα, ὁππότε κεν δὴ πάντεσ ἐλαυνομένην προί̈δωνται λαοὶ ἀπὸ πτόλιοσ, θεῖναι λίθον ἐγγύθι γαίησ νηὶ̈ θοῇ ἴκελον, ἵνα θαυμάζωσιν ἅπαντεσ ἄνθρωποι, μέγα δέ σφιν ὄροσ πόλει ἀμφικαλύψαι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 20:2)
  • οἱ δὲ μάλ’ ὦκα ἠί̈ξαν πεδίονδε διὰ πτόλιοσ μεμαῶτεσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 24:2)

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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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