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.
- οὗτοσ ὁ Θερμώδων ἐστίν, ἵναπερ αἱ Ἀμαζόνεσ οἰκῆσαι λέγονται. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 15 4:6)
- καὶ νὴ Δία τὴν Ἀμαζόνα τὴν ἐπερειδομένην τῷ δορατίῳ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 4:15)
- ἔτι καὶ στόματοσ ἁρμογὴν αὐτὸσ καὶ τὸν αὐχένα, παρὰ τῆσ Ἀμαζόνοσ λαβών ἡ Σωσάνδρα δὲ καὶ Κάλαμισ αἰδοῖ κοσμήσουσιν αὐτήν, καὶ τὸ μειδίαμα σεμνὸν καὶ λεληθὸσ ὥσπερ τὸ ἐκείνησ ἔσται· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 6:4)
- τὰσ δ’ Ἀμαζόνασ σκόπει, ἃσ Μίκων ἔγραψ’ ἐφ’ ἵππων μαχομένασ τοῖσ ἀνδράσιν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees4)
- πρῶτον μὲν ὀρόφῳ πτέρυγα περιβάλλει πέπλων, ἀνάθημα Δίου παιδόσ, οὓσ Ἡρακλέησ Ἀμαζόνων σκυλεύματ’ ἤνεγκεν θεῷ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:4)
- 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)
- καί τισ μουνωθεισέων τινὶ αὐτέων ἐνεχρίμπτετο, καὶ ἡ Ἀμαζὼν οὐκ ἀπωθέετο ἀλλὰ περιεῖδε χρήσασθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 113 1:4)
- Σμύρνα δ’ ἦν Ἀμαζὼν ἡ κατασχοῦσα τὴν Ἔφεσον, ἀφ’ ἧσ τοὔνομα καὶ τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ τῇ πόλει, ὡσ καὶ ἀπὸ Σισύρβησ Σισυρβῖται τινὲσ τῶν Ἐφεσίων ἐλέγοντο· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 5:4)
