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ἀμυχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμυχή

Structure: ἀμυχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)mu/ssw

Sense

  1. a scratch, skin-wound

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

  • δυσπάθειαν δὲ καὶ ῥώμην αὐτῶν ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ ὁ τεχνίτησ Ζωΐλοσ ἐκέλευσεν ἐξ εἴκοσι βημάτων ἀφεῖναι καταπελτικὸν βέλοσ, οὗ προσπεσόντοσ ἀρραγὴσ διέμεινεν ὁ σίδηροσ, ἀμυχὴν δὲ μόλισ ἔσχεν ἀμβλεῖαν, οἱο͂ν ἀπὸ γραφείου. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 21 3:2)
  • διὸ συνέβαινε τὰ ἴσα τοῖσ μεγάλα τραύματ’ εἰληφόσι καὶ τοῖσ μικρὰν καὶ τὴν τυχοῦσαν ἀμυχὴν ἀναδεξαμένοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 103 7:1)

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

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