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Σαρπηδών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σαρπηδών Σαρπηδόνος

Structure: Σαρπηδων (Stem)

Sense

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

  • Σαρπηδὼν δ’ αὐτοῦ μὲν ἀπήμβροτε δουρὶ φαεινῷ δεύτερον ὁρμηθείσ, ὃ δὲ Πήδασον οὔτασεν ἵππον ἔγχεϊ δεξιὸν ὦμον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 37:2)
  • καὶ πολλοὺσ μὲν ἀπέκτεινε τῶν βαρβάρων, ἐν δὲ δὴ τούτοισ καὶ Σαρπηδόνα τὸν παῖδα τοῦ Διόσ, . (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 46:4)
  • πολλάκισ δ’ ἡμῶν ἀγόντων τῶν θεῶν ἀπαστίαν, ἡνίκ’ ἂν πενθῶμεν ἢ τὸν Μέμνον’ ἢ Σαρπηδόνα, σπένδεθ’ ὑμεῖσ καὶ γελᾶτ’· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parabasis, antepirrheme8)
  • ὁ Ἀπαμεὺσ ὁ τὴν τῶν Σύρων βασιλείαν ἁρπάσασ ἐπολεμεῖτο ὑπὸ Σαρπηδόνοσ τοῦ Δημητρίου στρατηγοῦ περὶ Πτολεμαΐδα πόλιν καὶ ὡσ ὁ Σαρπηδὼν λειφθεὶσ ἀνεχώρησεν εἰσ τὴν μεσόγαιαν μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων στρατιωτῶν, οἱ δὲ τοῦ Τρύφωνοσ ὥδευον κατὰ τὸ πλησίαλον νικήσαντεσ τῇ μάχῃ, ἐξαίφνησ πελάγιον κῦμα ἐξαρθὲν μετέωρον εἰσ ὕψοσ ἐξαίσιον ἐπῆλθεν τῇ γῇ καὶ πάντασ αὐτοὺσ ἐπέκλυσεν διέφθειρέν τε ὑποβρυχίουσ, ἰχθύων τε πολὺν σωρὸν ἀναχωροῦν τὸ κῦμα μετὰ τῶν νεκρῶν κατέλιπε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 7 1:1)
  • καὶ Σαρπηδὼν δὲ παρὰ Λυκίοισ τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ τιμᾶται καὶ ἕδρῃ καὶ κρέασιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 23 2:3)
  • ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἰχθῦσ ἤσθιον Σαρπηδὼν δῆλον ποιεῖ, ὁμοιῶν τὴν ἅλωσιν πανάγρου δικτύου θήρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 461)
  • παιδαγωγὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ λόγον ἔχων τοῦ κονδύλου προχειρότερον, ὄνομα Σαρπηδών. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 1 6:1)

Related

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

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