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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

  • χρόνοσ γὰρ ἤδη δαρὸσ ἐξ ὅτου πέπλοισ κοσμεῖσθε σῶμα καὶ νεκρῶν ἀγάλμασιν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode2)
  • οἱ κῆποι, αὗται δὲ αἱ σκηναὶ συνεσκίαζον τοὺσ περιπάτουσ, ἑξῆσ δὲ τούτων Ἀφροδίσιον κατεσκεύαστο τρίκλινον, δάπεδον ἔχον ἐκ λίθων ἀχατῶν τε καὶ ἄλλων χαριεστάτων ὅσοι κατὰ τὴν νῆσον ἦσαν ` τοὺσ τοίχουσ δ’ εἶχε καὶ τὴν ὀροφὴν κυπαρίττου, τὰσ δὲ θύρασ ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ θύου γραφαῖσ δὲ καὶ ἀγάλμασιν, ἔτι δὲ ποτηρίων κατασκευαῖσ ὑπερβαλλόντωσ κατεσκεύαστο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 41 2:1)
  • τὴν οἵ γ’ εὐσεβέεσσιν ἀγάλμασιν ἱλάσκοντο γραπτοῖσ τε ζῴοισι μύροισί τε δαιδαλεόδμοισ σμύρνησ τ’ ἀκρήτου θυσίαισ λιβάνου τε θυώδουσ, ξανθῶν τε σπονδὰσ μελίτων ῥίπτοντεσ ἐσ οὖδασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 2 2:1)
  • ἐπα κοῦσαι μουσικὰν ὀρθὰν ἐπιδεικνυμένου τὸν Κάδμον οἵ τε πάλαι θεολόγοι, πρεσβύτατοι φιλοσόφων ὄντεσ, ὄργανα μουσικὰ θεῶν ἐνεχείριζον ἀγάλμασιν· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 33 10:2)
  • ὅτι τοῖσ Δαιδάλου ἀγάλμασιν οὐ προσέσχηκασ τὸν νοῦν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 168:2)

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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