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Πύθων

Third declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Πύθων Πύθωνος

Structure: Πυθων (Stem)

Etym.: cf. Puqw/

Sense

  1. Python
  2. of divination

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

  • Φιλόξενοσ δὲ ὁ παράσιτοσ, Πτερνοκοπασ δ’ ἐπίκλην, παρὰ Πύθωνι ἀριστῶν παρακειμένων ἐλαῶν καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν προσενεχθείσησ λοπάδοσ ἰχθύων πατάξασ τὸ τρύβλιον ἔφη μάστιξεν δ’ ἐλάαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 481)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ φυγεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ φόνῳ φασὶ χρῄζοντα καθαρσίων, οἱ δὲ τῷ Πύθωνι τετρωμένῳ καὶ φεύγοντι κατὰ τὴν ὁδόν, ἣν νῦν ἱερὰν καλοῦμεν, ἐπακολουθεῖν καὶ μικρὸν ἀπολειφθῆναι τῆσ τελευτῆσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 12 1:2)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ φυγεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ φόνῳ φασὶ χρῄζοντα καθαρσίων, οἱ δὲ τῷ Πύθωνι τετρωμένῳ καὶ φεύγοντι κατὰ τὴν ὁδόν, ἣν νῦν ἱερὰν καλοῦμεν, ἐπακολουθεῖν καὶ μικρὸν ἀπολειφθῆναι τῆσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 12 2:1)
  • ὅτε γὰρ Πύθωνα Φίλιπποσ ἔπεμψε τὸν Βυζάντιον καὶ παρὰ τῶν αὑτοῦ συμμάχων πάντων συνέπεμψε πρέσβεισ, ὡσ ἐν αἰσχύνῃ ποιήσων τὴν πόλιν καὶ δείξων ἀδικοῦσαν, τότ’ ἐγὼ μὲν τῷ Πύθωνι θρασυνομένῳ καὶ πολλῷ ῥέοντι καθ’ ὑμῶν οὐχ ὑπεχώρησα, ἀλλ’ ἀναστὰσ ἀντεῖπον καὶ τὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ δίκαι’ οὐχὶ προὔδωκα, ἀλλ’ ἀδικοῦντα Φίλιππον ἐξήλεγξα φανερῶσ οὕτωσ ὥστε τοὺσ ἐκείνου συμμάχουσ αὐτοὺσ ἀνισταμένουσ ὁμολογεῖν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 200:4)
  • τὸν δὲ περίπατον καταλείπω τῶν γνωρίμων τοῖσ βουλομένοισ, Βούλωνι, Καλλίνῳ, Ἀρίστωνι, Ἀμφίωνι, Λύκωνι, Πύθωνι, Ἀριστομάχῳ, Ἡρακλείῳ, Λυκομήδει, Λύκωνι τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. d'. LUKWN 6:2)
  • ξανθότριχα μὲν Φερένικον Ἀλφεὸν παρ’ εὐρυδίναν πῶλον ἀελλοδρόμαν εἶδε νικάσαντα χρυσόπαχυσ Αὤσ, Πυθῶνί τ’ ἐν ἀγαθέᾳ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 3:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ οὗτοσ ὦ φίλ’ Ἄπολλον <ἀεὶ> πεινῇ, θαλεροῖσ δακρύοισ σᾶσ ἁπτόμενοσ φαρέτρασ Πυθῶνι δίᾳ μὴ κακῶσ πένεσθαι. (Aristotle, Parabasis, strophe2)

Synonyms

  1. of divination

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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