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ἀνδρομάχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνδρομάχος

Structure: ἀνδρομαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)nh/r, ma/xomai

Sense

  1. fighting with men

Declension

First/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

  • Ἑκάβη, λεύσσεισ τήνδ’ Ἀνδρομάχην ξενικοῖσ ἐπ’ ὄχοισ πορθμευομένην; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests1)
  • Ἕκτωρ μὲν οὖν Ἀνδρομάχην τὴν Ηἐτίωνοσ γαμεῖ, Ἀλέξανδροσ δὲ Οἰνώνην τὴν Κεβρῆνοσ τοῦ ποταμοῦ θυγατέρα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 12 6:1)
  • λαμβάνει δὲ Ἀγαμέμνων μὲν κατ’ ἐξαίρετον Κασάνδραν, Νεοπτόλεμοσ δὲ Ἀνδρομάχην, Ὀδυσσεὺσ δὲ Ἑκάβην. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 5 37:3)
  • ὅταν εὖ εἴπῃσ ἔπη καὶ ἐκπλήξῃσ μάλιστα τοὺσ θεωμένουσ, ἢ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα ὅταν ἐπὶ τὸν οὐδὸν ἐφαλλόμενον ᾄδῃσ, ἐκφανῆ γιγνόμενον τοῖσ μνηστῆρσι καὶ ἐκχέοντα τοὺσ ὀιστοὺσ πρὸ τῶν ποδῶν, ἢ Ἀχιλλέα ἐπὶ τὸν Ἕκτορα ὁρμῶντα, ἢ καὶ τῶν περὶ Ἀνδρομάχην ἐλεινῶν τι ἢ περὶ Ἑκάβην ἢ περὶ Πρίαμον, τότε πότερον ἔμφρων εἶ ἢ ἔξω σαυτοῦ γίγνῃ καὶ παρὰ τοῖσ πράγμασιν οἰέταί σου εἶναι ἡ ψυχὴ οἷσ λέγεισ ἐνθουσιάζουσα, ἢ ἐν Ἰθάκῃ οὖσιν ἢ ἐν Τροίᾳ ἢ ὅπωσ ἂν καὶ τὰ ἔπη ἔχῃ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 32:2)
  • μιμοῦμαι Πύρρον τὸν Ἀχιλλέοσ, ὃσ προέκρινεν Ἑρμιόνησ ἀλόχου τὴν λάτριν Ἀνδρομάχην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 18 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. fighting with men

Related

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

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