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ἀγχόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγχόνη

Structure: ἀγχον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gxw

Sense

a throttling, strangling, hanging, hanging, hanging, by hanging

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἀγχόνη	ἀγχόνᾱ	ἀγχόναι
Genitive	ἀγχόνης	ἀγχόναιν	ἀγχονῶν
Dative	ἀγχόνῃ	ἀγχόναιν	ἀγχόναις
Accusative	ἀγχόνην	ἀγχόνᾱ	ἀγχόνᾱς
Vocative	ἀγχόνη	ἀγχόνᾱ	ἀγχόναι

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

ταῦτ’ οὐχὶ δεινῆσ ἀγχόνησ ἔστ’ ἄξια, ὕβρεισ ὑβρίζειν, ὅστισ ἔστιν ὁ ξένοσ; (Euripides, episode 4:2)
ὤφθη δὲ τῆσ πόλεωσ διαφθαρείσησ γυνή κρεμαμένη μὲν ἐξ ἀγχόνησ, παιδίον δὲ νεκρὸν ἐξηρτημένη τοῦ τραχήλου, λαμπάδι δὲ καιομένῃ τὴν οἰκίαν ὑφάπτουσα. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 31 3:1)
οὐδεὶσ δὲ τῷ λόγῳ προσέσχεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ παραυτίκα δῆλοσ ἦν ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ἐπὶ συκοφαντίᾳ καὶ διαβολῇ προηγμένοσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν, καὶ μᾶλλον ἐφωράθη τὸ πρᾶγμα μετ’ ὀλίγασ ἡμέρασ ῥιφθέντοσ ἐκ τῆσ εἱρκτῆσ νεκροῦ, λεγομένου μὲν αὐτομάτωσ τεθνάναι, σημεῖα δ’ ἀγχόνησ καὶ πληγῶν ἔχοντοσ· (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 42 8:1)
νῦν ἀγχόνησ μοι τέρματ’, ἢ φάοσ βλέπειν. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 12:3)
ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ οἶδ’ ὄμμασιν ποίοισ βλέπων πατέρα ποτ’ ἂν προσεῖδον εἰσ Αἵδου μολὼν οὐδ’ αὖ τάλαιναν μητέρ’, οἷν ἐμοὶ δυοῖν ἔργ’ ἐστὶ κρείσσον’ ἀγχόνησ εἰργασμένα. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode4)

Similar forms

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

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