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σαρδόνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαρδόνιον σαρδόνιου

Structure: σαρδονι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the rope sustaining the upper-edge of a hunting-net

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

  • οἱ δὲ παραπλεύσαντεσ τὰ Λιγύων καὶ Κελτῶν ἔθνη, καὶ διὰ τοῦ Σαρδονίου πελάγουσ διακομισθέντεσ, παραμειψάμενοι Τυρρηνίαν ἦλθον εἰσ Αἰαίην, ἔνθα Κίρκησ ἱκέται γενόμενοι καθαίρονται. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 24:9)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἂν συμβαίη, κἂν τοῦ Σαρδονίου πελάγουσ βαθύτερον ὑποθώμεθα τὸν Πόντον, ὅπερ λέγεται τῶν ἀναμετρηθέντων βαθύτατον χιλίων που ὀργυιῶν, ὡσ Ποσειδώνιόσ φησι. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 18:7)

Synonyms

  1. the rope sustaining the upper-edge of a hunting-net

Related

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

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