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ἀκόντιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκόντιον

Structure: ἀκοντι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kwn의 지소사, Hhymn., Hdt., etc.

Sense

Declension

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

  • ἡ γὰρ δὴ ξύνημα τῇ Κελτῶν φωνῇ καλουμένη ταύτῃ δὴ ἄφεσισ γίγνεται, ἐπείπερ οὐδὲ ἀσιδήρῳ ἀκοντίῳ εὐμαρὴσ ἀκοντίζεσθαι. (Arrian, chapter 42 4:2)
  • ὥσπερ Ἀριστόβουλοσ μονομαχίαν γράψασ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Πώρου, καὶ ἀναγνόντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦτο μάλιστα τὸ χωρίον τῆσ γραφῆσ ‐ ᾤετο γὰρ χαριεῖσθαι τὰ μέγιστα τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐπιψευδομενοσ ἀριστείασ τινὰσ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀναπλάττων ἔργα μείζω τῆσ ἀληθείασ ‐ λαβὼν ἐκεῖνοσ τὸ βιβλίον ‐ πλέοντεσ δὲ ἐτύγχανον ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Ὑδάσπῃ ‐ ἔρριψεν ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἐσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπειπών, Καὶ σὲ δὲ οὕτωσ ἐχρῆν, ὦ Ἀριστόβουλε, τοιαῦτα ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ μονομαχοῦντα καὶ ἐλέφαντασ ἑνὶ ἀκοντίῳ φονεύοντα. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 123)
  • καὶ βάλλει μὲν αὐτὸσ ἀκοντίῳ, βάλλουσι δὲ οἱ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 10 2:2)
  • καὶ παρατρέχων νεανίασ Πέρσησ ὄνομα Μιθριδάτησ ἀκοντίῳ βάλλει τὸν κρόταφον αὑτοῦ παρὰ τὸν ὀφθαλμόν, ἀγνοῶν ὅστισ εἰή. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 11 3:3)
  • συνεῖδον τὰ ἐπιθωρακίδια φοινικᾶ, λευκοῖσ χρωμένων τῶν βασιλικῶν ἁπάντων, ἔγνωσαν πολεμίουσ ὄντασ, εἷσ οὖν ἐκείνων ἐτόλμησεν ἀγνοῶν ἐξόπισθεν βαλεῖν τὸν Κῦρον ἀκοντίῳ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 11 6:1)

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

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