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Σύβαρις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σύβαρις Σύβαριος

Structure: Συβαρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Sybaris

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

  • ὅτι Κρότων πόλισ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ ἐστὶ καὶ Σύβαρισ ἀπὸ τοῦ παραρρέοντοσ ποταμοῦ οὕτωσ κληθεῖσα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 1 1:1)
  • οὐ Σύβαρισ μὲν ὅσῳ μάλιστα ἐτρύφησεν, τοσούτῳ θᾶττονἀπώλετο; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 32:10)
  • ἀπὸ μὲν δὴ Ἰταλίησ ἦλθε Σμινδυρίδησ ὁ Ἱπποκράτεοσ Συβαρίτησ, ὃσ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον δὴ χλιδῆσ εἷσ ἀνὴρ ἀπίκετο ἡ δὲ Σύβαρισ ἤκμαζε τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον μάλιστα, καὶ Σιρίτησ Δάμασοσ Ἀμύριοσ τοῦ σοφοῦ λεγομένου παῖσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 127 2:1)
  • νεανίσκοσ Σύβαρισ καὶ Κάλαβρόσ τε ποταμὸσ καὶ Λύκα πηγή, πρὸσ δὲ ἡρῷόν τε καὶ Τεμέσα ἦν ἡ πόλισ, ἐν δέ σφισι καὶ δαίμων ὅντινα ἐξέβαλεν ὁ Εὔθυμοσ, χρόαν τε δεινῶσ μέλασ καὶ τὸ εἶδοσ ἅπαν ἐσ τὰ μάλιστα φοβερόσ, λύκου δὲ ἀμπίσχετο δέρμα ἐσθῆτα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 16:2)
  • ἐφεξῆσ δ’ ἐστὶν ἐν διακοσίοισ σταδίοισ Ἀχαιῶν κτίσμα ἡ Σύβαρισ δυεῖν ποταμῶν μεταξύ, Κράθιδοσ καὶ Συβάριδοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 26:1)

Synonyms

  1. Sybaris

Related

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

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