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αἰχμάλωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰχμάλωτος αἰχμάλωτη αἰχμάλωτον

Structure: αἰχμαλωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. taken by the spear, captive to one's spear, taken prisoner, prisoner, booty
  2. such as awaits a captive

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τὰ σκεύη τῆσ δόξησ αὐτῆσ αἰχμάλωτα ἀπήχθη, ἀπεκτάνθη τὰ νήπια αὐτῆσ ἐν ταῖσ πλατείαισ, οἱ νεανίσκοι αὐτῆσ ἐν ρομφαίᾳ ἐχθροῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 2:9)
  • εὐθὺσ οὖν ἥ τε λεία περιηλαύνετο καὶ τὰ αἰχμάλωτα συνείχετο καὶ τὰσ σκηνὰσ διήρπαζον καὶ τὰσ ἁμάξασ κατελαμβάνοντο, αὐτάνδρουσ τὰσ πλείστασ ἁλισκομένασ, καὶ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ ἡμῶν ὑβρίζοντεσ τὰσ παλλακίδασ καὶ τὰσ γυναῖκασ· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 38:4)
  • διατρίβοντοσ δὲ περὶ τήν Κορινθίων αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ Ἡραῖον εἰληφότοσ καὶ τὰ αἰχμάλωτα τοὺσ στρατιώτασ ἄγοντασ καὶ φέροντασ ἐπιβλέποντοσ, ἀφίκοντο πρέσβεισ ἐκ Θηβῶν περὶ φιλίασ. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 22 1:1)
  • ὅμωσ δ’ οὖν κατὰ μὲν γνώμην ἔμφασιν ποιήσεισ, ὅταν συνεχῆ τὰ πράγματα λέγῃσ καὶ ἐπάλληλα, ὡσ ἐν τῷ πρὸσ Λεπτίνην, ἐνίκησε μὲν τοίνυν Λακεδαιμονίουσ ναυμαχῶν καὶ πεντήκοντα μιᾶσ δεούσησ ἔλαβεν αἰχμαλώτουσ τριήρεισ, εἷλε δὲ τῶν νήσων τὰσ πολλάσ, καὶ τρισχίλια αἰχμάλωτα σώματα δεῦρ’ ἤγαγε, καὶ δέκα καὶ ἑκατὸν τάλαντα ἀπέφηνεν ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων, καὶ πάλιν, ἑπτακαίδεκα μὲν πόλεισ εἷλεν, ἑβδομήκοντα δὲ τριήρεισ ἔλαβε, δέκα δὲ καὶ ἑκατὸν τάλαντα ἀπέφηνε, τοσαῦτα ἔστησεν τρόπαια. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 2:2)
  • καταριθμησάμενοσ οὖν τὰ αἰχμάλωτα γράφει καὶ ταῦτα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 872)

Synonyms

  1. taken by the spear

Related

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

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