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ῥίγιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥίγιον

Structure: ῥιγι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: neut. comp. adj. formed from r(i=gos

Sense

  1. more frosty, colder, more horrible

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

  • οὐ μὲν γάρ τι γυναικὸσ ἀνὴρ ληίζετ’ ἄμεινον τῆσ ἀγαθῆσ, τῆσ δ’ αὖτε κακῆσ οὐ ῥίγιον ἄλλο, δειπνολόχησ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 76:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔτ’ ἄλλο ῥίγιον ἀνθρώποισι κακῆσ ἐπικείσετ’ ἀνάγκησ, ἥ με καὶ ἐνθάδε νεῖσθαι ἐπέχραεν ἐκ βασιλῆοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 8:7)
  • ὅ τοι καὶ ῥίγιον ἄλγοσ ἔσσεται, εἴ σε θανόντεσ ἕλωρ κείνοισι λίποιμεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 7:36)
  • γυναικὸσ οὐδὲν χρῆμ’ ἀνὴρ ληΐζεται ἐσθλῆσ ἄμεινον οὐδὲ ῥίγιον κακῆσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 31)
  • Τιθωνῷ μὲν ἔδωκεν ἔχειν κακὸν ἄφθιτον ὁ Ζεὺσ γῆρασ, ὃ καὶ θανάτου ῥίγιον ἀργαλέου. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other works32)

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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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