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Σαυρομάτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σαυρομάτης Σαυρομάτου

Structure: Σαυροματ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Sarmatian

Declension

First 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

  • τετάρτη μὲν ἦν ἡμέρα τῆσ φιλίασ Δανδάμιδι καὶ Ἀμιζώκῃ, ἀφ’ οὗ τὸ ἀλλήλων αἷμα συνεπεπώκεσαν ἧκον δὲ ἡμῖν ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν Σαυρομάται μυρίοισ μὲν ἱππεῦσιν, οἱ πεζοὶ δὲ τρὶσ τοσοῦτοι ἐπεληλυθέναι ἐλέγοντο. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 38:1)
  • κἀπειδὴ ἐξεκέκοπτο καὶ ἤδη τὰ λύτρα εἶχον οἱ Σαυρομάται, παραλαβὼν τὸν Ἀμιζώκην ἐπανῄει ἐπερειδόμενοσ αὐτῷ, καὶ ἅμα διανηξάμενοι ἀπεσώθησαν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 39:12)
  • Σαυρομάται καλεῦνται. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xvii.3)
  • φωνῇ δὲ οἱ Σαυρομάται νομίζουσι Σκυθικῇ, σολοικίζοντεσ αὐτῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀρχαίου, ἐπεὶ οὐ χρηστῶσ ἐξέμαθον αὐτὴν αἱ Ἀμαζόνεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 117 1:1)
  • οἳ δὲ ὡσ ἤκουσαν ταῦτα τὴν ταχίστην συστραφέντεσ, αἵ τε δύο μοῖραι τῶν Σκυθέων καὶ ἡ μία καὶ Σαυρομάται καὶ Βουδῖνοι καὶ Γελωνοί, ἐδίωκον τοὺσ Πέρσασ ἰθὺ τοῦ Ἴστρου. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 136 1:2)

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