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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

  • τοξεύμασιν ἢ ἀκοντίοισ ἢ σφενδόναισ ἢ λίθοισ ἐκ χειρόσ. (Arrian, chapter 3 5:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ἱππῆσ οὗτοι οὐκ ἀκοντίοισ κούφοισ διαχρῶνται ἔτι, ἀλλὰ ξυστοῖσ δόρασιν, ἀσιδήροισ μέν, τῷ βάρει δὲ οὔτε τοῖσ ἐξακοντίζουσιν εὐφόροισ, οὔτε ἐφ̓ οὕσ ἐκπέμπεται ἀκινδύνοισ. (Arrian, chapter 40 6:1)
  • σφαιρίζουσι δὲ παρ’παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ οὐ μόνον ἄνδρεσ ἀλλὰ καὶ γυναῖκεσ, καὶ δίσκοισ δὲ καὶ ἀκοντίοισ μετά τινοσ συμμετρίασ ἐχρῶντο δίσκοισιν τέρποντο καὶ αἰγανέῃσιν ἱέντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 445)
  • καὶ ὅσον μὲν χρόνον προσφέροιτο ναῦσ, οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν καταστρωμάτων τοῖσ ἀκοντίοισ καὶ τοξεύμασι καὶ λίθοισ ἀφθόνοισ ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ἐχρῶντο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 26 2:4)
  • οὐδεὶσ γὰρ ὑπέμεινεν αὐτὸν οὐδ’ εἰσ χεῖρασ συνῆλθεν, ἀλλ’ ἀποστάντεσ ἔβαλλον ἀκοντίοισ καὶ τοξεύμασιν. (Plutarch, , chapter 39 3:2)

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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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