πόλις,
Epic dialect also
πτόλις (found sometimes in Trag. etc., see at πτόλις), ἡ:
Epic dialect forms,
accusative singular πόληα [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
genitive πόλιος or πτόλιος, [
Refs 8th c.BC+] P.(scanned ?~X ?~X ?~X ¯ [
Refs 8th c.BC+]:
Ionic dialect forms,
genitive πόλεως [
Refs 6th c.BC+];
dative mostly πόλει, but πόλῑ [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
accusative πόλῑς [
Refs]:
Doric dialect genitive singular πόλιος [
Refs 2nd c.BC+];
dative singular πόλι [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
dative plural πολίεσι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολίεσσι Foed.Lac. cited in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect πόλιθι [
Refs]:
Aeolic dialect genitive πόλιος [
Refs 7th c.BC+]
disyllable (as also in Comedy texts, except [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
Attic dialect dual πόλη [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
city, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἄκρη, ἀκροτάτη, =ἀκρόπολις,
the citadel, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; which at Athens also was in early times called simply π., while the rest of the city was called ἄστυ, καλεῖται.. ἡ ἀκρόπολις μέχρι τοῦδε ἔτι ὑπ᾽ Ἀθηναίων π. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν πόλει in treaties, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; so Ἰνάχου π.
the citadel of Argos, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Cadmea at Thebes, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; of Alexandria, [
Refs]; π. ἡ ἁγία, of Jerusalem, [
LXX]
the city of.., [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in
apposition, ἡ Μένδη π. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2 one's city or
country, πόθι τοι π. ἠδὲ τοκῆε; [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
3 ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως
city governor, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; στρατηγὸς πόλεως [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; στρατηγὸς κατὰ πόλιν, = Latin
praetor urbanus, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
II country, as dependent on and called after its city, ἀνθρώπων οἳ τήνδε π. καὶ γαῖαν ἔχουσιν [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially of
islands peopled by men, Αῆμνον π. Θόαντος [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. Αἴαντος, =Σαλαμίς, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III community or
body of citizens (opposed to ἄστυ, their dwellings, [
Refs 8th c.BC+] denotes the
town), ὧν π. ἀνάριθμος ὄλλυται [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.2 state or
community, ξύμπασα π. κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀπηύρα [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially
free state, republic, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
state affairs, government, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν π. φεύγειν shun one's
public duties, [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
assembly of citizens, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.3 rights of citizenship, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV πόλιν παίζειν, a game resembling backgammon, [
Refs 5th c.BC+], perhaps alluded to in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit
pūr, Lithuanian
pilìs 'fortrees'.)
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