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πυξίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυξίον πυξίου

Structure: πυξι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from puci/s

Sense

  1. a tablet of box-wood

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

  • "ἐοίκε ταὐτὸ πάσχειν τοῖσ νεωστὶ γράμματα μανθάνουσι τῶν παίδων, οἳ τοὺσ χαρακτῆρασ ἐν τοῖσ πυξίοισ ἐθιζόμενοι λέγειν, ὅταν ἔξω γεγραμμένουσ ἐν ἑτέροισ ἴδωσιν, ἀμφιγνοοῦσι καὶ ταράττονται καὶ γὰρ οὗτοσ, οὓσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἐπικούρου γράμμασιν ἀσπάζεται καὶ ἀγαπᾷ λόγουσ, οὐ συνίησιν οὐδὲ γιγνώσκει λεγομένουσ ὑφ’ ἑτέρων. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 252)

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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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