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ἁρπεδόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁρπεδόνη

Structure: ἁρπεδον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a cord, a bowstring

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

  • ἐοῦσα γὰρ λεπτὴ ἔχει ἁρπεδόνασ ἐν ἑωυτῇ τριηκοσίασ καὶ ἑξήκοντα, πάσασ φανεράσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 47 4:2)
  • τὴν δὲ φιλοτεχνίαν τῶν Ἰνδῶν ἐμφανίζων σπόγγουσ φησὶν ἰδόντασ παρὰ τοῖσ Μακεδόσι μιμήσασθαι, τρίχασ καὶ σχοινία λεπτὰ καὶ ἁρπεδόνασ διαρράψαντασ εἰσ ἔρια, καὶ μετὰ τὸ πιλῆσαι τὰ μὲν ἐξελκύσαντασ τὰ δὲ βάψαντασ χροιαῖσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 134:1)

Synonyms

  1. a cord

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

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