Μαιῶτις

See also: Μαιώτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Μαιῶτῐς • (Maiôtĭs) f (genitive Μαιώτῐδος); third declension

  1. (fully Μαιῶτῐς λῐ́μνη) Sea of Azov
    Meronym: Σᾰπρᾱ́ (Săprā́)
    • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 415–424:
      Κολχίδος τε γᾶς ἔνοικοι / παρθένοι, μάχας ἄτρεστοι, / καὶ Σκύθης ὅμιλος, οἳ γᾶς / ἔσχατον τόπον ἀμφὶ Μαι- / ῶτιν ἔχουσι λίμναν, / Ἀραβίας τ’ ἄρειον ἄνθος, / ὑψίκρημνον οἳ πόλισμα / Καυκάσου πέλας νέμονται, / δάιος στρατός, ὀξυπρῴ- / ροισι βρέμων ἐν αἰχμαῖς.
      Kolkhídos te gâs énoikoi / parthénoi, mákhas átrestoi, / kaì Skúthēs hómilos, hoì gâs / éskhaton tópon amphì Mai- / ôtin ékhousi límnan, / Arabías t’ áreion ánthos, / hupsíkrēmnon hoì pólisma / Kaukásou pélas némontai, / dáios stratós, oxuprōí- / roisi brémōn en aikhmaîs.
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    • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 408–416:
      τὸν ἱππευτάν τ’ Ἀμαζό- / νων στρατὸν Μαιῶτιν ἀμφὶ / πολυπόταμον ἔβα δι’ Ἄ- / ξεινον οἶδμα λίμνας, / τίν᾽ οὐκ ἀφ᾽ Ἑλλανίας / ἄγορον ἁλίσας φίλων, / κόρας Ἀρείας πέπλων / χρυσεόστολον φάρος, / ζωστῆρος ὀλεθρίους ἄγρας.
      tòn hippeután t’ Amazó- / nōn stratòn Maiôtin amphì / polupótamon éba di’ Á- / xeinon oîdma límnas, / tín’ ouk aph’ Hellanías / ágoron halísas phílōn, / kóras Areías péplōn / khruseóstolon pháros, / zōstêros olethríous ágras.
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    • 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Mithridatic Wars 15.101:
      Μιθριδάτης δ’ ἐν Διοσκούροις χειμάζων, ἥν τινα πόλιν οἱ Κόλχοι σύμβολον ἡγοῦνται τῆς Διοσκούρων σὺν Ἀργοναύταις ἐπιδημίας, οὐδὲν σμικρόν, οὐδ’ οἷον ἐν φυγῇ, διενοεῖτο, ἀλλὰ τὸν Πόντον ὅλον ἐν κύκλῳ καὶ Σκύθας ἐπὶ τῷ Πόντῳ καὶ τὴν Μαιώτιδα λίμνην ὑπερελθὼν ἐς Βόσπορον ἐμβαλεῖν, τήν τε Μαχάρους τοῦ παιδὸς ἀρχήν, ἀχαρίστου περὶ αὐτὸν γενομένου, παραλαβὼν αὖθις ἐκ μετώπου Ῥωμαίοις γενέσθαι, καὶ πολεμεῖν ἐκ τῆς Εὐρώπης οὖσιν ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ, τὸν πόρον ἐν μέσῳ θέμενος, ὃν κληθῆναι νομίζουσι Βόσπορον Ἰοῦς διανηξαμένης, ὅτε βοῦς γενομένη κατὰ ζηλοτυπίαν Ἥρας ἔφευγεν.
      Mithridátēs d’ en Dioskoúrois kheimázōn, hḗn tina pólin hoi Kólkhoi súmbolon hēgoûntai tês Dioskoúrōn sùn Argonaútais epidēmías, oudèn smikrón, oud’ hoîon en phugēî, dienoeîto, allà tòn Pónton hólon en kúklōi kaì Skúthas epì tōî Póntōi kaì tḕn Maiṓtida límnēn huperelthṑn es Bósporon embaleîn, tḗn te Makhárous toû paidòs arkhḗn, akharístou perì autòn genoménou, paralabṑn aûthis ek metṓpou Rhōmaíois genésthai, kaì polemeîn ek tês Eurṓpēs oûsin en tēî Asíāi, tòn póron en mésōi thémenos, hòn klēthênai nomízousi Bósporon Ioûs dianēxaménēs, hóte boûs genoménē katà zēlotupían Hḗras épheugen.
      Mithridates, wintering in Dioscurias, which city the Colchians consider a token of the stay of the Discuri with the Argonauts, was not thinking through a small thing nor anything fitting in flight, but rather of going to the Bosporus, having come across the entire Pontus in a circuit and, in addition to the Pontus, Scythia and the Sea of Azov; of again being in front of the Romans, having taken away the kingdom of Macharus, his son who was ungrateful towards him; and of fighting them, while they were in Asia, having set up in the middle the strait, which people think is called the Bosporus from Io's having swum across it when she fled Hera's jealousy after being turned into a cow.
    • 4th century AD, Pseudo-Orpheus, Argonautica 41.1059–1064:
      καί ῥα πανημερίῃσι πονεύμενοι εἰρεσίῃσι / Μαιώτας πρώτους ἀφικάνομεν ἁβροχίτωνας / ἠδὲ Γελωνὸν ἔθνος Βαθυάγρων τ’ ἄπλετα φῦλα / Σαυρομάτας τε Γέτας τε καὶ Ὑλαίους Κέκρυφάς τε / Ἄρσωπάς τ’ Ἀριμασπά τ’ ἔθνη, πολυπάμονα λαόν, / ὥν περιναιετάει γενεὴ Μαιώτιδα λίμνην.
      kaí rha panēmeríēisi poneúmenoi eiresíēisi / Maiṓtas prṓtous aphikánomen habrokhítōnas / ēdè Gelōnòn éthnos Bathuágrōn t’ ápleta phûla / Sauromátas te Gétas te kaì Hulaíous Kékruphás te / Ársōpás t’ Arimaspá t’ éthnē, polupámona laón, / hṓn perinaietáei geneḕ Maiṓtida límnēn.
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    • AD 530–594, Agathias Scholasticus, apud Anthologia Graeca 4.3:[1]
      οὐδὲ γὰρ ὀθνείης σε δεδέξεται ἤθεα γαίης, / ἀλλὰ σοφοῦ κτεάνοισιν ὁμιλήσεις Βασιλῆος, / ἔνθα κεν ἀίξειας, ἐπεὶ κυκλώσατο κόσμον / κοιρανίῃ· Τάναϊς δὲ μάτην ἤπειρον ὁρίζων / ἐς Σκυθίην πλάζοιτο καὶ ἐς Μαιώτιδα λίμνην.
      oudè gàr othneíēs se dedéxetai ḗthea gaíēs, / allà sophoû kteánoisin homilḗseis Basilêos, / éntha ken aíxeias, epeì kuklṓsato kósmon / koiraníēi; Tánaïs dè mátēn ḗpeiron horízōn / es Skuthíēn plázoito kaì es Maiṓtida límnēn.
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  2. (fully Μαιῶτῐς χώρᾱ) Pryazovia (the land around the Sea of Azov)
    • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 35:
      Ἡ μὲν οὖν Μιθριδάτου δίωξις ἐνδεδυκότος εἰς τὰ περὶ Βόσπορον ἔθνη καὶ τὴν Μαιῶτιν ἀπορίας εἶχε μεγάλας· Ἀλβανοὶ δὲ αὖθις ἀφεστῶτες αὐτῷ προσηγγέλθησαν.
      Hē mèn oûn Mithridátou díōxis endedukótos eis tà perì Bósporon éthnē kaì tḕn Maiôtin aporías eîkhe megálas; Albanoì dè aûthis aphestôtes autōî prosēngélthēsan.
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Declension

Third declension of ἡ Μαιῶτῐς; τῆς Μαιώτῐδος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Μαιῶτῐς
hē Maiôtĭs
Genitive τῆς Μαιώτῐδος
tês Maiṓtĭdos
Dative τῇ Μαιώτῐδῐ
tēî Maiṓtĭdĭ
Accusative τὴν Μαιῶτῐν / Μαιώτῐδᾰ
tḕn Maiôtĭn / Maiṓtĭdă
Vocative Μαιῶτῐ
Maiôtĭ
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-δς (*-ds).

Derived terms

  • Μαιωτῐκός (Maiōtĭkós)

Descendants

  • Greek: Μαιώτις (Maiótis)
  • → Latin: Maeōtis

References

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