Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄντρον

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Principal Part: ἄντρον

Sense

Examples

  • καὶ ἐγενήθη ὡσ εἶδε Ζαμβρὶ ὅτι προκατείληπται αὐτοῦ ἡ πόλισ, καὶ πορεύεται εἰσ ἄντρον τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ ἐνεπύρισεν ἐπ̓ αὐτὸν τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ ἀπέθανεν (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 16:18)
  • ταύτῃ, ὦ Ἥρα, πρὸσ τὰ λαιὰ περισκόπει, μὴ πρὸσ ἄκρῳ τῷ ὄρει, παρὰ δὲ τὴν πλευράν, οὗ τὸ ἄντρον, ἔνθα καὶ τὴν ἀγέλην ὁρᾷσ. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 5:6)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐπέβη τῇ νήσῳ, ὁ μὲν ταῦροσ οὐκέτι ἐφαίνετο, ἐπιλαβόμενοσ δὲ τῆσ χειρὸσ ὁ Ζεὺσ ἀπῆγε τὴν Εὐρώπην ἐσ τὸ Δικταῖον ἄντρον ἐρυθριῶσαν καὶ κάτω ὁρῶσαν· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, zephyrus and notus, chapter 42)
  • ὁ Πόλεμοσ αὐτὴν ἐνέβαλ’ εἰσ ἄντρον βαθύ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 2:18)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἦλθεν χρόνοσ, τεκοῦσ’ ἐν οἴκοισ παῖδ’ ἀπήνεγκεν βρέφοσ ἐσ ταὐτὸν ἄντρον οὗπερ ηὐνάσθη θεῷ Κρέουσα, κἀκτίθησιν ὡσ θανούμενον κοίλησ ἐν ἀντίπηγοσ εὐτρόχῳ κύκλῳ, προγόνων νόμον σῴζουσα τοῦ τε γηγενοῦσ Ἐριχθονίου. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:3)

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

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