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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

  • χεῖρεσ αὐτοῦ τορευταὶ χρυσαῖ πεπληρωμέναι Θαρσίσ. κοιλία αὐτοῦ πυξίον ἐλεφάντινον ἐπὶ λίθου σαπφείρου. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 5:14)
  • καὶ ἀπεκρίθη πρόσ με Κύριοσ καὶ εἶπε. γράψον ὅρασιν καὶ σαφῶσ εἰσ πυξίον, ὅπωσ διώκῃ ὁ ἀναγινώσκων αὐτά. (Septuagint, Prophetia Habacuc 2:2)
  • οὗτοσ τοίνυν πυθόμενοσ ὡσ ἐγγελᾶται, τὸ Αἰσχύλου πυξίον εἰσ ὃ ἐκεῖνοσ ἔγραφε σὺν πολλῇ σπουδῇ κτησάμενοσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ᾤετο ἔνθεοσ ἔσεσθαι καὶ κάτοχοσ ἐκ τοῦ πυξίου· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 15:2)
  • Τοῦτο μέν γε πρὸσ σὲ μάλιστα εὐστόχωσ ἂν εἰρημένον εἰή τῷ Διονυσίῳ, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ χρυσῶσαι αὐτοῦ ἔδει ἐκεῖνο τὸ πυξίον. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 15:7)

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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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