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ῥυσίπολις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥυσίπολις ῥυσίπολεως

Structure: ῥυσιπολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. saving the city

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

  • σύ τ’, ὦ Διογενὲσ φιλόμαχον κράτοσ, ῥυσίπολισ γενοῦ, Παλλάσ, ὅ θ’ ἵππιοσ ποντομέδων ἄναξ ἰχθυβόλῳ Ποσειδάων μαχανᾷ, ἐπίλυσιν φόβων, ἐπίλυσιν δίδου. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ἃ τὸν δουριμανῆ, τὸν δ’ Ἄρεα πτολέμων, Ἑλλάδοσ ἀστεροπάν, ἐξέτεκεν λαγόνων δῖον Ἀχιλλῆα, τοῦ κλέοσ οὐράνιον τῷ ὕπο Πύρρα τέκεν παῖδα Νεοπτόλεμον, περσέπολιν Τρώων, ῥυσίπολιν Δαναῶν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 485 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. saving the city

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

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