πόντιον (pontion)

πόντιον is an Ancient Greek form of πόντιος, meaning “of the sea”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.991: πόντιον, οἷά τε θῆρα λοχώμενοι ἔνδον ἐόντα.

Plutarch, Camillus 25.4: οἱ δʼ ἀκούσαντες καὶ βουλευσάμενοι τόν τε Κάμιλλον ἀποδεικνύουσι δικτάτορα, καὶ τόν Πόντιον αὖθις ἀποπέμπουσι τήν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν ὁμοίως ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ χρησάμενον. ἔλαθε γὰρ τοὺς πολεμίους καὶ τὰ παρὰ τῆς βουλῆς ἀπήγγειλε τοῖς ἔξω Ῥωμαίοις.

Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 17.84: σταθεὶς ὄρουσε, πόντιόν τέ νιν

All forms of πόντιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.