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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

  1. (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.

Examples

  • ὡρ́α βαδίζειν μοὐστὶν ἐπὶ τὸν δεσπότην ἤδη γὰρ αὐτοὺσ οἰόμαι δεδειπνάναι, καὶ ἐν Δαναίσιν ἤδη παροινεῖσ ἐσ ἐμὲ πρὶν δεδειπνάναι, καὶ Πλάτων Σοφισταῖσ καὶ Ἐπικράτησ ὁ Ἀμβρακιώτησ ‐ μέσησ δ’ ἐστὶ κωμῳδίασ ποιητήσ ‐ ἐν Ἀμαζόσιν δεδειπνάναι γὰρ ἅνδρεσ εὐκαίρωσ πάνυ δοκοῦσί μοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 20 3:4)
  • τὴν δ’ ἀπόκινον καλουμένην ὄρχησιν, ἧσ μνημονεύει Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Νεμέσει καὶ Κηφισόδωροσ ἐν Ἀμαζόσιν ’ι Ἀριστοφάνησ τ’ ἐν Κενταύρῳ καὶ ἄλλοι πλείονεσ, ὕστερον μακτρισμὸν ὠνόμασαν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 26 2:3)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἐτελεύτησε καὶ τοῦτον, Ἀμαζόσιν ἐπέταξεν ἀγωνίσασθαι αὐτόν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 3 2:3)
  • λαμβάνει μετὰ ταῦτα παρὰ Δευκαλίωνοσ Φαίδραν τὴν Μίνωοσ θυγατέρα, ἧσ ἐπιτελουμένων τῶν γάμων Ἀμαζὼν ἡ προγαμηθεῖσα Θησεῖ τοὺσ συγκατακειμένουσ σὺν ταῖσ μεθ’ ἑαυτῆσ Ἀμαζόσιν ἐπιστᾶσα σὺν ὅπλοισ κτείνειν ἔμελλεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 1 29:1)
  • αὕτη γάρ, ἐπιτελουμένων τῶν γάμων Φαίδρασ, ἐπιστᾶσα σὺν ὅπλοισ ἅμα ταῖσ μεθ’ ἑαυτῆσ Ἀμαζόσιν ἔλεγε κτείνειν τοὺσ συνανακειμένουσ Θησεῖ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 5 3:2)

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