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ἀγωγεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγωγεύς

Structure: ἀγωγευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. one that draws or drags
  2. a leading-rein, leash

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

  • τὸ δ’ αὖ ἔμπροσθεν μακρῷ τῷ ἀγωγεῖ προϊόντα διδάσκειν ὑφηγεῖσθαι τὸν ἵππον διὰ τάδε αὖ ψέγομεν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 6:1)
  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ παντάπασιν ἄπειρον τοῦ διαπηδᾶν λαβόντα δεῖ τοῦ ἀγωγέωσ καταβεβλημένου προδιαβῆναι αὐτὸν τὴν τάφρον, ἔπειτα δὲ ἐντείνειν δεῖ τῷ ἀγωγεῖ ὡσ διάλληται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. one that draws or drags

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

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