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τετράπολις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετράπολις τετράπολεως

Structure: τετραπολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or with four cities

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

  • μή νυν ἔτ’ ἐν <τῇ> τετραπόλει τοὐμὸν τροπαῖον εἰή. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, tetrameters3)
  • ταὐτὰ ἱστορεῖ καὶ Φιλόχοροσ ἐν τῇ ἐπιγραφομένῃ Τετραπόλει μνημονεύων τῶν καταλεγομένων τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ παρασίτων καὶ Διόδωροσ ὁ Σινωπεὺσ κωμῳδιοποιὸσ ἐν Ἐπικλήρῳ, οὗ τὸ μαρτύριον ὀλίγον ὕστερον παραθήσομαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 27 2:1)
  • οἰκείωσ δὲ τῇ τετραπόλει καὶ εἰσ σατραπείασ διῄρητο τέτταρασ ἡ Σελευκίσ, ὥσ φησι Ποσειδώνιοσ, εἰσ ὅσασ καὶ ἡ κοίλη Συρία, εἰσ μίαν δ’ ἡ Μεσοποταμία. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 8:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or with four cities

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

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