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σεισίχθων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σεισίχθων σεισίχθονος

Structure: σεισιχθων (Stem)

Etym.: sei/w

Sense

  1. earth-shaker

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

  • καλεῖται δὲ ὁ θεόσ, ᾧ ταῦτ’ ἐπιτελοῦσι, Κῶνσοσ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων, ὃν ἐξερμηνεύοντεσ εἰσ τὴν ἡμετέραν γλῶτταν Ποσειδῶνα σεισίχθονά φασιν εἶναί τινεσ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὑπογείῳ τετιμῆσθαι βωμῷ λέγουσιν, ὅτι τὴν γῆν ὁ θεὸσ οὗτοσ ἔχει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 31 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. earth-shaker

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

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