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σιτωνία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιτωνία

Structure: σιτωνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from si_tw/nhs

Sense

  1. purchase of corn, the office of

Declension

First 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

  • πέρυσι δὲ εἰσ τὴν σιτωνίαν τὴν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δήμου τάλαντον ὑμῖν ἐπεδώκαμεν ἐγώ τε καὶ ὁ ἀδελφόσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 56:2)
  • καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ μάχην ἐπέδωκε τάλαντον, καὶ εἰσ τὴν σιτωνίαν ἐπέδωκεν ἐν τῇ σιτοδείᾳ τάλαντον· (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , A. 5:1)
  • τάσ τ’ οὖν ἀγορὰσ διὰ φυλακῆσ ἔχετε, καὶ τῆσ τιμῆσ τῶν ὠνίων μηθὲν ἀνίετε, ἀλλ’ ὅσου πλείστου ποτὲ ἦν τὰ ὤνια, τοσούτου καὶ νῦν αὐτὰ πωλεῖν ψηφίσασθε δικαίασ ἀφορμὰσ ἔχοντεσ καὶ προφάσεισ εὐλόγουσ τήν τ’ ἀχάριστον τοῦ δήμου καταβοήν, ὡσ ὐφ’ ἡμῶν κατασκευασθείσησ τῆσ σιτοδείασ, ἣ διὰ τὴν ἀπόστασιν τὴν ἐκείνων ἐγένετο καὶ τὴν καταφθοράν, ἣν ἐποιήσαντο, τῆσ γῆσ, ἄγοντεσ αὐτὴν καὶ φέροντεσ ὥσπερ πολεμίαν, καὶ τὰσ ἐξαιρεθείσασ ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου δαπάνασ εἰσ τοὺσ ἀποσταλέντασ ἐπὶ τὴν σιτωνίαν ἄνδρασ, καὶ ἄλλα πολλά τιν’, ἃ ἠδίκησθε ὑπ’ αὐτῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 24 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. purchase of corn

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

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