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ἀκροστόλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκροστόλιον

Structure: ἀκροστολι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: stolh/

Sense

  1. the gunwale

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

  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Νικάνοροσ καταπλεύσαντοσ εἰσ τὸν Πειραιᾶ κεκοσμημένῳ τῷ στόλῳ τοῖσ ἀπὸ τῆσ νίκησ ἀκροστολίοισ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀποδοχῆσ αὐτὸν ἠξίωσε μεγάλησ ὁ Κάσανδροσ διὰ τὰσ εὐημερίασ, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ὁρῶν αὐτὸν ὄγκου πλήρη καὶ πεφρονηματισμένον, ἔτι δὲ τὴν Μουνυχίαν διὰ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ στρατιωτῶν φρουροῦντα, κρίνασ αὐτὸν ἀλλότρια φρονεῖν ἐδολοφόνησεν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 75 1:1)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ τὰσ ἰδίασ ναῦσ κοσμήσασ τοῖσ ἀκροστολίοισ καὶ τὰσ ἁλούσασ ἐφελκόμενοσ τὸν πλοῦν ἐποιεῖτο πρὸσ τὸ στρατόπεδον καὶ τὸν οἰκεῖον λιμένα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 52 4:2)

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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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