Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χθόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χθόνιος χθόνιᾱ χθόνιον

Structure: χθονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xqw/n

Sense

  1. in, under or beneath the earth, subterranean, of the nether world, with, gods below
  2. of or from the earth
  3. in or of the country, native
  4. of the earth

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δέ σοι μετέδοξε βελτίω ταῦτα εἶναι καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐλευθερίαν μακρὰ χαίρειν ἐᾶν, ζηλῶσαι δὲ τὸ ἀγεννέστατον ἐκεῖνο ἰαμβεῖον ὅπου τὸ κέρδοσ, παρὰ φύσιν δουλευτέον, ὁρ́α ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ ἔτι ἀκούσεταί σου ἀναγινώσκοντοσ αὐτό, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἄλλῳ παράσχῃσ τῶν τὸν παρόντα σου βίον ὁρώντων ἐπελθεῖν τὰ γεγραμμένα, εὔχου δὲ Ἑρμῇ τῷ χθονίῳ καὶ τῶν ἀκηκοότων πρότερον πολλὴν λήθην κατασκεδάσαι, ἢ δόξεισ τῷ τοῦ Κορινθίου μύθου ταὐτόν τι πεπονθέναι, κατὰ σαυτοῦ ὁ Βελλεροφόντησ γεγραφὼσ τὸ βιβλίον· (Lucian, Apologia 9:2)
  • εὔχεσθαι δὲ Διὶ χθονίῳ Δημήτερί θ’ ἁγνῇ, ἐκτελέα βρίθειν Δημήτεροσ ἱερὸν ἀκτήν, ἀρχόμενοσ τὰ πρῶτ’ ἀρότου, ὅτ’ ἂν ἄκρον ἐχέτλησ χειρὶ λαβὼν ὁρ́πηκα βοῶν ἐπὶ νῶτον ἵκηαι ἔνδρυον ἑλκόντων μεσάβων. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 53:1)
  • εἶτα λαβὼν ὕδωρ ἀπὸ τῆσ κρήνησ αὐτὸσ ἀπολούει τε τὰσ στήλασ καὶ μύρῳ χρίει, καὶ τὸν ταῦρον εἰσ τὴν πυρὰν σφάξασ καὶ κατευξάμενοσ Διὶ̈ καὶ Ἑρμῇ χθονίῳ παρακαλεῖ τοὺσ ἀγαθοὺσ ἄνδρασ τοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἀποθανόντασ ἐπὶ τὸ δεῖπνον καὶ τὴν αἱμοκουρίαν. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. in

  2. of or from the earth

  3. in or of the country

  4. of 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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