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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

  • Διονύσιοσ τά ἱερὰ περιπορευόμενοσ, εἰ μὲν τράπεζαν ἴδοι παρακειμένην χρυσῆν ἢ ἀργυρᾶν, ἀγαθοῦ δαίμονοσ κελεύσασ ἐγχέαι ἐκέλευεν ἀφαιρεῖν, ὅσα δὲ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων φιάλην εἶχε προτετακότα, εἴπασ ἂν ὅτι δέχομαι, ἐξαιρεῖν ἐκέλευε. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 137:1)
  • περιῄρει τῶν ἀγαλμάτων φάσκων αὐτὸσ καὶ κουφότερα καὶ εὐωδέστερα δοῦναι· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 137:5)
  • καὶ δημιουργῶν ἀγαλμάτων τὸ ἣδιστον ὀφθῆναι καὶ θεοπρεπέστατον. (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 3 9:1)
  • γνώσει δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν χειρῶν γε τῶν ἀγαλμάτων· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 2:6)
  • "ἔφηβοι μὲν γὰρ ἐπόμπευσαν εἰσ ὀκτακοσίουσ, χρυσοῦσ ἔχοντεσ στεφάνουσ, βόεσ δ’ εὐτραφεῖσ περὶ χιλίουσ, θεωρίδεσ δὲ βραχὺ λείπουσαι τριακοσίων, ἐλεφάντων δὲ ὀδόντεσ ὀκτακόσιοι, τὸ δὲ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων πλῆθοσ οὐ δυνατὸν ἐξηγήσασθαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:53)

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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