Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σίον σίου

Structure: σι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the water-parsnep or marsh-wort

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

  • διὸ καὶ Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ δεύτεροσ Εὐεργέτησ Αἰγύπτου βασιλεύσασ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ ἀξιοῖ γράφειν ἀμφὶ δὲ λειμῶνεσ μαλακοὶ σίου ἠδὲ σελίνου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5291)
  • ταῦτα δὴ ἰδὼν Ἀλέξανδροσ στρατοπεδεύεσθαι αὐτοῦ, ὅπωσ εἶχον, ἐκέλευε τοὺσ Μακεδόνασ, γνοὺσ, ὅτι οὐ μενοῦσι πανδημεὶ οἱ Τελμισσεῖσ αὐλιζομένουσ σφᾶσ ἰδόντεσ, ἀλλ̓ ἀποχωρήσουσιν ἐσ τὴν πόλιν πλησίον σίου οὖσαν οἱ πολλοὶ αὐτῶν, ὅσον φυλακὴν καταλιπόντεσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὄρεσι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 27 7:1)

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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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