Ἀμαζών
Third declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
Ἀμαζών
Ἀμαζόνος
Structure:
Ἀμαζων
(Stem)
Etym.: Commonly derived from 부정 접두사 a, mazo/s, from the fable that they got rid of the right breast, that it might not interfere with the use of the bow.
Sense
- (chiefly in the plural) Amazons, a nation of female warriors from western Scythia.
Declension
Third declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- καὶ νὴ Δία τὴν Ἀμαζόνα τὴν ἐπερειδομένην τῷ δορατίῳ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 4:15)
- καὶ γὰρ αὖ τῷ Θησεῖ καὶ ἄλλασ εἶναι γυναῖκασ, τήν τε Ἀμαζόνα καὶ τὰσ τοῦ Μίνωοσ θυγατέρασ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 8:3)
- ὁ δὲ Δοῦρισ οὐ ποταμὸν εἶναι φησι τὸν Θερμώδοντά, ἀλλ’ ἱστάντασ τινὰσ σκηνὴν καὶ περιορύττοντασ ἀνδριαντίσκον εὑρεῖν λίθινον, ὑπὸ γραμμάτων τινῶν διασημαινόμενον ὡσ εἰή Θερμώδων, ἐν ταῖσ ἀγκάλαισ Ἀμαζόνα φέροντα τετρωμένην. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 19 3:1)
- ἐνταῦθα δὲ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀφικέσθαι τὴν Ἀμαζόνα οἱ πολλοὶ λέγουσιν, ὧν καὶ Κλείταρχόσ ἐστι καὶ Πολύκλειτοσ καὶ Ὀνησίκριτοσ καὶ Ἀντιγένησ καὶ Ἴστροσ Ἀριστόβουλοσ δὲ καὶ Χάρησ ὁ εἰσαγγελεύσ καὶ Πτολεμαῖοσ καὶ Ἀντικλείδησ καὶ Φίλων ὁ Θηβαῖοσ καὶ Φίλιπποσ ὁ Θεαγγελεὺσ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ Ἑκαταῖοσ ὁ Ἐρετριεὺσ καὶ Φίλιπποσ ὁ Χαλκιδεὺσ καὶ Δοῦρισ ὁ Σάμιοσ πλάσμα φασὶ γεγονέναι τοῦτο. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 46 1:1)
- ἡ δὲ δόξα τῶν ἔργων ἐπίεζε φθόνῳ τὸν Φειδίαν, καὶ μάλισθ’ ὅτι τὴν πρὸσ Ἀμαζόνασ μάχην ἐν τῇ ἀσπίδι ποιῶν αὑτοῦ τινα μορφὴν ἐνετύπωσε πρεσβύτου φαλακροῦ πέτρον ἐπῃρμένου δι’ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν χειρῶν, καὶ τοῦ Περικλέουσ εἰκόνα παγκάλην ἐνέθηκε μαχομένου πρὸσ Ἀμαζόνα. (Plutarch, , chapter 31 4:1)