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πόντ-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Alc.595 (lyr.): (πόντος):—
A.of the sea, epith. of Poseidon, h.Hom.22.3, S.OC1072 (lyr.), etc.; “πόντιε” E. Andr.1010 (lyr.); π. Θέτις, Νηρηΐδες, Pi.N.3.35, p.11.2; π. δάκη sea monsters, A.Pr.582 (lyr.); “π. βόσκημα” Id.Fr.275; π. ὕδωρ, πέλαγος, Pi.O.2.64, 7.56; κύματα, θύελλα, A.Pr.89, S.OC1659, etc.; ᾄδην π. πεφευγότες, i.e. death by drowning, A.Ag.667.
b. π. ῥάκη, of sponges or fragments of such, Trag.Adesp.258.
2. by the sea, of places, Ἰσθμός, ἀκτή, Χρύση, Pi.O.8.48, A.Pers.449, S.Ph.269.
3. in the sea, of islands, Pi.N.8.18; esp. of those far out to sea, opp. πρόσγειοι, Arist.Mete.368b33, cf. Thphr.HP4.6.2,8.6.6; of ships, “βάριδες” A.Pers.553(lyr.); “ὅπλισμα” E.IA253 (lyr.).
4. of persons, “ἱκέτας δέχεσθαι ποντίους” from the sea, Id.Cyc.300; “ἀφιέναι πόντιον” into the sea, Id.Hec.797.
5. brought by sea or from beyond sea, of iron, A.Th.940 (lyr.).
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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