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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

  • καὶ ὅμωσ οὐ κατέπαυσεν αὐτὸν ἅτε γὰρ ἠσκημένοσ ἐν τῇ ὀρχηστικῇ, ῥᾳδίωσ, οἶμαι, διεδίδρασκεν τὰσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἀφέσεισ τῶν ἀκοντίων. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 8:8)
  • ὁπότε δὲ ἐκ τῶν ἀριστερῶν ἐπελαύνοιεν, τότε δὴ πᾶσ ὁ ἀκροβολισμὸσ ἀρίδηλοσ γίγνεται, καὶ τῶν θυρεῶν ἡ προβολή, καὶ ἡ ἐκ τῆσ ἀριστερᾶσ χειρὸσ ἐσ τὴν δεξιὰν ὕφεσισ τῶν ἀκοντίων ὀξεῖα, καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ ὅπωσ αὐτὰ ὑπολαβοῦσα καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ περιενεγκοῦσα ὥσπερ ἐν τροχοῦ περιδινήσει ὁμοῦ μὲν ἐξηκόντισεν, ὁμοῦ δὲ ὑπέλαβεν τὸ λειφθέν, καὶ τοῦτο αὖ ὑπερενεγκοῦσα ἐξηκόντισεν. (Arrian, chapter 38 5:1)
  • τὸ δὲ ἥμισυ, ὅπερ καὶ ἔλαττον, περισχόντεσ οἱ Ἀλανοὶ καὶ Μάχλυεσ ἔκοπτον πανταχόθεν ἀφθόνωσ ἀφιέντεσ τῶν ὀϊστῶν καὶ ἀκοντίων, ὥστε πάνυ ἐπονοῦντο ἡμῶν οἱ περιεσχημένοι, καὶ ἤδη προϊέντο οἱ πολλοὶ τὰ ὅπλα. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 53:8)
  • τῶν δ’ ἀκοντίων συνδοῦντεσ ὀρθὰ τρία λυχνείῳ χρώμεθα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 607)
  • τὰ μέν γε σώματα τῶν παρθένων δρόμοισ καὶ πάλαισ καὶ βολαῖσ δίσκων καὶ ἀκοντίων διεπόνησεν, ὡσ ἥ τε τῶν γεννωμένων ῥίζωσισ ἰσχυρὰν ἐν ἰσχυροῖσ σώμασιν ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα βλαστάνοι βέλτιον, αὐταί τε μετὰ ῥώμησ τοὺσ τόκουσ ὑπομένουσαι καλῶσ ἅμα καὶ ῥᾳδίωσ ἀγωνίζοιντο πρὸσ τὰσ ὠδῖνασ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 14 2:1)

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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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