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ἐπιχθόνιος , ον, Ep. Adj., (χθών)
A.upon the earth, earthly, freq. in Hom., as epith. of ἄνθρωποι, ἄνδρες, βροτοί, Od.8.479, Il.1.266,272 : abs., ἐπιχθόνιοι earthly ones, men on earth (cf. χαμαί), opp. ἐπουράνιοι θεοί, 24.220, cf. Pi.O.6.50, B.4.15, etc.; so “ἐ. γένος ἀνδρῶν” Pi.Fr. 213.3 ; “ἐ. δαίμονες” who haunt the earth, Hes.Op.123.
2. in pl., natives of a country, D.P.459,1093.
3. terrestrial, opp. marine, “ἑρπετόν” Opp.H.2.425.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 4.15
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 123
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.266
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.220
    • Homer, Odyssey, 8.479
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