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χρυσίδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσίδιον χρυσίδιου

Structure: χρυσιδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: xrusi/on의 지소사

Sense

  1. a small piece of gold

Declension

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

  • ὀλίγῳ δὲ ὕστερον ἵππον ἑαυτῇ παρασκευάσασα καὶ χρυσίδιον οὐ πολὺ νυκτὸσ ἀπέδρα, καὶ διώξασα συντόνωσ ἐπὶ Ταίναρον, ἐκεῖθεν ἐπέβη νεὼσ εἰσ Αἴγυπτον πλεούσησ· (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 38 4:1)
  • στρατιώτησ ἐπὶ κρίσιν τινὰ καλούμενοσ ὑφ’ ἡγεμόνοσ, ὅσον εἶχε χρυσίδιον εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ ἐνέθηκε τοῦ ἀνδριάντοσ. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 31 1:2)
  • οὗτοσ δ’ ἀκούσασ οὔτ’ ἠμφεσβήτησεν μὴ ἔχειν οὔτε χαλεπῶσ ἤνεγκεν ὡσ οὐκ εἰληφώσ, ἀλλ’ ὡμολόγει καὶ ἔτι μικρὸν ἔφη πρὸσ τὴν ἐμὴν μητέρα περὶ χρυσιδίων ἀντιλέγεσθαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 20:2)

Synonyms

  1. a small piece of gold

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

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