Ῥόδος
Θεῶν ὄνειδος τοὺς κακοὺς εὐδαιμονεῖν → Crimen deorum est improbi felicitas → Ein Vorwurf an die Götter ist der Schurken Glück
English (LSJ)
ἡ, the island (also the city) of Rhodes, Il.2.654, etc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Ῥόδος: -ου, ἡ νῆσος Ρόδος, Ἰλ., κτλ.· πρβλ. ‘Ροδιακός’ Ῥόδιος.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (ἡ) :
Rhodes, île du Dodécanèse.
Étymologie: ῥόδον.
English (Autenrieth)
Rhodes, the celebrated island southwest of Asia Minor, Il. 2.654 ff., 667.—Ῥόδιος, of Rhodes, pl. Ῥόδιοι, the Rhodians, Il. 2.654.
English (Slater)
Ῥόδος the island
1 οὔπω φανερὰν ἐν πελάγει Ῥόδον ἔμμεν (O. 7.57) ἂν δὲ Ῥόδον κατῴκισθεν (sc. οἱ τοῦ Θήρωνος πρόγονοι) fr. 119. pro pers., τὰν ποντίαν ὑμνέων παῖδ' Ἀφροδίτας Ἀελίοιό τε νύμφαν, Ῥόδον (O. 7.14) Ῥόδῳ ποτὲ μιχθεὶς τέκεν ἑπτὰ παῖδας (O. 7.71)
English (Strong)
probably from rhodon (a rose); Rhodus, an island of the Mediterranean: Rhodes.
English (Thayer)
ῤόδου, ἡ, Rhodes (cf. Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)), a well-known island of the Cyclades opposite Caria and Lycia, with a capital of the same name: Homer down); 1 Maccabees 15:23.)
