πτολίεθρον
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pto.lí.e.tʰron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.ɛ.tʰron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.e.θron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.e.θron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ptoˈli.e.θron/
Noun
πτολίεθρον • (ptolíethron) n
- (Epic) city
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.1–2:
- Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε·- Ándra moi énnepe, Moûsa, polútropon, hòs mála pollà
plánkhthē, epeì Troíēs hieròn ptolíethron éperse; - Muse, sing for me of the man of many ways, who wandered very far, after he sacked the holy city of Troy:
- Ándra moi énnepe, Moûsa, polútropon, hòs mála pollà
- Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
References
- πτολίεθρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πτολίεθρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πτολίεθρον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πτολίεθρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- πτολίεθρον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
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