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ἀντίπρῳρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίπρῳρος ἀντίπρῳρᾱ ἀντίπρῳρον

Structure: ἀντιπρῳρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prw/ira

Sense

  1. with the prow towards, prow to prow
  2. face to face

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

  • οἱ δὲ ὡσ ἐγγὺσ ἐγένοντο, ταῖσ κώπαισ ἠσπάσαντο τοὺσ Καίσαροσ, ἐκείνων τε ἀντασπασαμένων μετεβάλοντο, καὶ πάσαισ ἅμα ταῖσ ναυσὶν ὁ στόλοσ εἷσ γενόμενοσ ἐπέπλει πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν ἀντίπρῳροσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 76 1:3)
  • ἐπελαύνοντοσ δὲ ῥοθίῳ τοῦ Νεοπτολέμου καὶ κελεύσαντοσ εἰσ ἐμβολὴν ἀγαγεῖν τὸν κυβερνήτην, δείσασ ὁ Δαμαγόρασ τὸ βάροσ τῆσ βασιλικῆσ καὶ τὴν τραχύτητα τοῦ χαλκώματοσ οὐκ ἐτόλμησε συμπεσεῖν ἀντίπρῳροσ, ἀλλ’ ὀξέωσ ἐκ περιαγωγῆσ ἀποστρέψασ ἐκέλευσεν ἐπὶ πρύμναν ὤσασθαι καὶ πιεσθείσησ ἐνταῦθα τῆσ νεώσ ἐδέξατο τὴν πληγήν ἀβλαβῆ γενομένην, ἅτε δὴ τοῖσ θαλαττεύουσι τῆσ νεώσ μέρεσι προσπεσοῦσαν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 3 9:1)
  • ἅμα δὲ δὴ μία τισ τῶν νεῶν [ἅμα δὲ δὴ] ἐσχέθη, καὶ ἄλλη ἀπὸ ταύτησ διέχουσα ὅσον ξύμμετρον πρὸσ ἰσχὺν τῶν ἐπιβαλλομένων ἀντίπρωροσ πρὸσ τὸ ῥεῦμα ὁρμίζεται· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 7 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. with the prow towards

  2. face to face

Related

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

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