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ἀκόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκόνη

Structure: ἀκον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)kh/ I

Sense

  1. a whetstone, hone

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀκονῶν ξίφοσ οὐδὲ λόγχην χαράττων οὐδὲ λαμπρύνων κράνοσ οὐδὲ στρατευόμενοσ οὐδ’ ἐρέττων, ἀλλ’ ἀντίθετα καὶ πάρισα καὶ ὁμοιόπτωτα κολλῶν καὶ συντιθείσ, μονονοὺ κολαπτῆρσι καὶ ξυστῆρσι τὰσ περιόδουσ ἀπολεαίνων καὶ ῥυθμίζων ἐγήρασε. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 8 2:2)
  • "ὡσ ἄνθρωποσ ὑπὲρ ἐνενήκοντα ἔτη γεγονὼσ καὶ μέγιστον ἡγούμενοσ τῶν κακῶν τὸν θάνατον" οὐ γὰρ ἀκονῶν ξίφοσ οὐδὲ λόγχην χαράττων οὐδὲ λαμπρύνων κράνοσ; (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 8 6:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὦ Δελφῶν πλείστασ ἀκονῶν, Φοῖβε, μαχαίρασ καὶ προδιδάσκων τοὺσ σοὺσ προπόλουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 74 1:2)
  • "πάντεσ ἔγνωσαν τὴν τοῦ φαρμάκου ταύτην φιλοτησίαν, οὐ προῄεσαν τῶν οἰκιῶν πρὶν φαγεῖν πήγανον τοῦτο γὰρ τοὺσ προφαγόντασ μηδὲν πάσχειν πίνοντασ τὸ ἀκόνιτον ὃ καὶ κληθῆναί φησι διὰ τὸ φύεσθαι ἐν τόπῳ Ἀκόναισ καλουμένῳ ὄντι περὶ τὴν Ἡράκλειαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 29 1:1)
  • "μηδαμῶσ ἀφανίσῃσ μηδ’ ἀνέλῃσ τὴν ἀκόνην τῶν νέων. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 26 1:1)
  • κἀγχειριδίου δ’ ἀκόνῃ σκληρᾷ παραθηγομένησ βρύχεισ κοπίδοσ, δηχθεὶσ αἴθωνι Κλέωνι. (Plutarch, , chapter 33 7:2)
  • ψυχῆσ ἐστὶν Ἔρωσ ἀκόνη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 18 1:2)
  • ὀλίγον δὲ ἄπωθεν αὐτῆσ ἥ τε ἀκόνη κεκρύφθαι λέγεται κατὰ γῆσ καὶ τὸ ξυρὸν ὑπὸ βωμῷ τινι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. a whetstone

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

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