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ἀγχόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγχόνη

Structure: ἀγχον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gxw

Sense

  1. a throttling, strangling, hanging, hanging, hanging, by hanging

Declension

First 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

  • ὁ δ’ ἐν δόμοισι πρέσβυσ ὀμματοστερὴσ ἀπήνασ ὁμοπτέρου τᾶσ ἀπο‐ ζυγείσασ δόμων πόθον ἀμφιδάκρυτον ἀεὶ κατ‐ έχων ἀνῇξε μὲν ξίφουσ ἐπ’ αὐτόχειρά τε σφαγάν, ὑπὲρ τέραμνά τ’ ἀγχόνασ, στενάζων ἀρὰσ τέκνοισ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 2:1)
  • καὶ μὴν ὅμοια τούτοισ καὶ χείρω περὶ Ἀρτέμιδοσ οἱ δεισιδαίμονεσ ὑπολαμβάνουσιν αἵ τε κἂν ἀπ’ ἀγχόνασ ἀίξασα αἵ τε καλεχόνα κναίσατε αἵ τε κανέκεκροσ; (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 10 6:2)

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

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