Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑποχθόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποχθόνιος ὑποχθόνιη ὑποχθόνιον

Structure: ὑποχθονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xqw/n

Sense

  1. under the earth, subterranean

Declension

First/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

  • οἶσθα οὖν εἰ δύναιντ’ ἂν ἔτι ἀνελθεῖν ἅπαξ ὑποχθόνιοι γενόμενοι. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 22:10)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ καὶ τοῦτο γένοσ κατὰ γαῖ’ ἐκάλυψε, ‐ τοὶ μὲν ὑποχθόνιοι μάκαρεσ θνητοῖσ καλέονται, δεύτεροι, ἀλλ’ ἔμπησ τιμὴ καὶ τοῖσιν ὀπηδεῖ ‐ , Ζεὺσ δὲ πατὴρ τρίτον ἄλλο γένοσ μερόπων ἀνθρώπων χάλκειον ποίησ’, οὐκ ἀργυρέῳ οὐδὲν ὁμοῖον, ἐκ μελιᾶν, δεινόν τε καὶ ὄβριμον· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 19:1)
  • αἵ τε Πανελλήνων ἀγοραὶ θαλίαι τε ἀνάκτων, ἐξ οὗ βοτρυόεσσ1’ οἰνὰσ ὑποχθόνιον πτόρθον ἀνασχομένη θαλερῷ ἐπτύξατο πήχει αἰθέροσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 683)
  • καὶ παρ’ Αἰγυπτίοισ ἄλλα τε πολλὰ τῶν ὀνομάτων λόγοι εἰσὶ καὶ τὸν ὑποχθόνιον τόπον, εἰσ ὃν οἰόνται τὰσ ψυχὰσ ἀπέρχεσθαι μετὰ τὴν τελευτήν, Ἀμένθην καλοῦσι σημαίνοντοσ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ τὸν λαμβάνοντα καὶ διδόντα. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 29 7:1)
  • Ζεὺσ δὲ αὐτὸν κήρυκα ἑαυτοῦ καὶ θεῶν ὑποχθονίων τίθησι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 3:19)

Synonyms

  1. under the earth

Related

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

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