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ὑποχθόνιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: hypochthonios

Principal Part: ὑποχθόνιος ὑποχθόνιη ὑποχθόνιον

Structure: ὑποχθονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: χθών

Sense

  1. under the earth, subterranean

Examples

  • Ζεὺς δὲ αὐτὸν κήρυκα ἑαυτοῦ καὶ θεῶν ὑποχθονίων τίθησι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 3:19)
  • " ἡ δὲ νὺξ ὅτι δύσφημον καὶ τῷ Αἵδῃ πλησιάζον, ὁ δὲ Αἵδης τῷ Ταρτάρῳ, εἰκάζοι ἄν τις ἀκούοντα περὶ Ταρτησσοῦ τὸν Τάρταρον ἐκεῖθεν παρονομάσαι τὸν ἔσχατον τῶν ὑποχθονίων τόπων, προσθεῖναι δὲ καὶ μῦθον τὸ ποιητικὸν σώζοντα. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 24:3)

Synonyms

  1. under the earth

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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