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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

  • ἤθελεν ὀρφναίων γυάλων κληῖδασ ἀνεῖσα, ἐκ χθονίων Τιτῆνασ ἀναστήσασα βερέθρων οὐρανὸν ὑψιμέδοντοσ ἀιστῶσαι Διὸσ ἕδρην. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 122)
  • ἀλλὰ ποικιλίᾳ πραπίδων δεινὰ μὲν φῦλα πόντου χθονίων τ̓ ἀερίων τε δάμναται βουλεύματα. (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 9:3)
  • χθονίων τ’ ἀερίων τε δάμναται βουλεύματα. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 1 9:1)
  • ἀλλὰ σύ μοι Γᾶ τε καὶ ἄλλοι χθονίων ἁγεμόνεσ δαίμονα μεγαυχῆ ἰόντ’ αἰνέσατ’ ἐκ δόμων, Περσᾶν Σουσιγενῆ θεόν· (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ναὸσ ἀρωγοὶ τῆσ Αἰάντοσ, γενεᾶσ χθονίων ἀπ’ Ἐρεχθειδῶν, ἔχομεν στοναχὰσ οἱ κηδόμενοι τοῦ Τελαμῶνοσ τηλόθεν οἴκου. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode, anapests1)

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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