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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

  • κατὰ δὲ τὰσ πρύμνασ τῶν λέμβων ἐφέλκειν διενοοῦντο τοὺσ ἵππουσ νέοντασ, τρεῖσ ἅμα καὶ τέτταρασ τοῖσ ἀγωγεῦσιν ἑνὸσ ἀνδρὸσ ἐξ ἑκατέρου τοῦ μέρουσ τῆσ πρύμνησ οἰακίζοντοσ, ὥστε πλῆθοσ ἱκανὸν ἵππων συνδιακομίζεσθαι κατὰ τὴν πρώτην εὐθέωσ διάβασιν. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 43 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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