Asia
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Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτίμησεν... → The Council and the People honored... (inscription in the Roman city of Aizonai)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Ἀσία, ἡ, V. γῆ Ἀσίς (-ίδος), ἡ (Aesch., Pers. 249). Ἀσιάς (-άδος) χθών, ἡ (Eur., Ion, 74), Ἀσιάς γῆ, ἡ (Eur., Ion, 1586), or Ἀσιάς, ἡ, alone (Eur., Ion, 1356), or Ἀσιᾶτις (-ιδος) γῆ, ἡ (Eur., And. 1).
The continent of Asia: ἤπειρος Ἀσίς, ἡ (Aesch., P. V. 735).
Asiatic, adj.: Ἀσιανός. Fem. adj., V. Ἀσιάς (-άδος), Ἀσιᾶτις (-ιδος) (Eur., Tro. 1219; El. 315), Ἠπειρῶτις (-ιδος) (Eur., And. 159).
The people of Asia: οἱ Ἀσιανοί.
