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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

  • Σέλευκοσ δὲ Θρᾳκῶν φησί τινασ ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ ἀγχόνην παίζειν βρόχον ἀρτήσαντασ ἔκ τινοσ ὕψουσ,1 πρὸσ ὃν κατὰ κάθετον ὑποτίθεσθαι λίθον εὐπερίτρεπτον τοῖσ ἐπιβαίνουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 42 4:1)
  • πάσαισ μὲν γὰρ ἐξαίφνησ ἐπιθυμία θανάτου καὶ πρὸσ ἀγχόνην ὁρμὴ περιμανὴσ ἐνέπιπτε, πολλαὶ δ’ ἀπήγχοντο λανθάνουσαι· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 3)
  • ἐπιθυμία θανάτου καὶ πρὸσ ἀγχόνην ὁρμὴ περιμανὴσ ἐνέπιπτε, πολλαὶ δ’ ἀπήγχοντο λανθάνουσαι· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, chapter 11 2:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο ἐκείνη ἀκούσασα ἀγχόνην ἀνάπτει. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 13 3:4)
  • ὅδε γὰρ ὁ Ῥόοσ ἱκανὸσ μὲν ὡσ ὤκιστα θερμασίην πρηϋ῀ναι, δυνατὸσ δέ ἀγχόνην λῦσαι καὶ πάντα μειῶσαι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 287)

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

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