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ἄγαλμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγαλμα

Structure: ἀγαλματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)ga/llw

Sense

  1. a glory, delight, honour, mere ornaments
  2. a pleasing gift
  3. a statue in honour of a god, an image, any statue, a portrait, picture

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

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν μῦθον ἤκουσασ, ὃν λέγουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι περὶ αὐτῆσ, ὡσ ἐρασθείη τισ τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ καὶ λαθὼν ὑπολειφθεὶσ ἐν ἱερῷ συγγένοιτο, ὡσ δυνατὸν ἀγάλματι. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 4:5)
  • ἔτι γάρ, ὦ πάντων γενναιότατε, καταλέλοιπάσ τι κάλλοσ ἔξω τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ οὕτωσ πάντα εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ συμπεφορηκώσ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 7:1)
  • κἀπεὶ τόδ’ εἰσήκουσε δεσποτῶν ἔποσ, λαβοῦσα πέπλουσ ἐξ ἄκρασ ἐπωμίδοσ ἔρρηξε λαγόνασ ἐσ μέσασ παρ’ ὀμφαλόν, μαστούσ τ’ ἔδειξε στέρνα θ’ ὡσ ἀγάλματοσ κάλλιστα, καὶ καθεῖσα πρὸσ γαῖαν γόνυ ἔλεξε πάντων τλημονέστατον λόγον· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:3)
  • τὴν θεὸν δ’ ὅπωσ λάθω δέδοικα καὶ τύραννον, ἡνίκ’ ἂν κενὰσ κρηπῖδασ εὑρ́ῃ λαί̈νασ ἀγάλματοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 4:6)
  • "καὶ ὁ Ἡρόστρατοσ ἐξορμήσασ τῆσ νεὼσ μετὰ τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ, ἔχων καὶ τὰσ αἰφνίδιον αὐτῷ ἀναφανείσασ χλωρὰσ μυρρίνασ, ἀνέθηκεν ἐν τῷ τῆσ Ἀφροδίτησ ἱερῷ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 186)

Synonyms

  1. a glory

  2. a pleasing gift

Related

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

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