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ἀστράβη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀστράβη

Structure: ἀστραβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a mule's saddle, an easy padded saddle

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

  • "οὐκ εὐπόρωσ τε γὰρ ἔχω καὶ τὰ ἀμφὶ τὴν τράμιν μαλακίζομαι ἐπ’ ἀστράβησ ὀχηθείσ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 2:7)
  • "ἐγὼ δὲ περιελθὼν τὰ ἀρώματα σκόροδά τε εὑρ͂ον ἐν αὐτοῖσ πεφυκότα καὶ γηπαττάλουσ τινὰσ ἀνορύξασ καὶ τῶν σκανδίκων καὶ βρακάνων λαχανευσάμενοσ, ἔτι δὲ κάχρυσ πριάμενοσ ‐ οὔπω δ’ οἱ λειμῶνεσ ἀνθοσμίαι ἦσαν, ὡσ αὐτοποδητὶ βαδίζειν ‐ ἀνατεθεὶσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀστράβην ἐδάρην τὸν ὄρρον καὶ νῦν βαδίζω τε ὀδυνηρῶσ καὶ ἰδίω θαμὰ καὶ μαλακιῶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ δέομαι διανεῦσαι ἐν τῷ ὕδατι ἐπὶ πλεῖστον· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 2:11)
  • πανηγύρεωσ οὔσησ ποθ’ ἡ Γναθαίνιον εἰσ Πειραιᾶ κατέβαινε πρὸσ ξένον τινὰ ἔμπορον ἐραστὴν εὐτελῶσ ἐπ’ ἀστράβησ, τὰ πάντ’ ἔχουσ1’ ὀνάρια μεθ’ ἑαυτῆσ τρία καὶ τρεῖσ θεραπαίνασ καὶ νέαν τιτθὴν μίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 44 7:1)
  • "ὦ τρισάθλιε ὀνηλάτ’, εἰ μὴ θᾶττον ἐκστήσῃ ποτὲ ἐκ τῆσ ὁδοῦ, τὰ γύναια ταυτὶ καταβαλῶ σὺν τοῖσ ὀναρίοισ, φησί, καὶ ταῖσ ἀστράβαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 44 7:2)
  • "ἐπ’ ἀστράβησ δὲ ὀχούμενοσ ἐξ Ἀργούρασ τῆσ Εὐβοίασ,6 χλανίδασ δ’ ἐπ’ ὄχου καὶ κυμβία καὶ κάδουσ ἔχων, ὧν ἐπελαμβάνοντο οἱ πεντηκοστολόγοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 63 1:7)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ τὰ μέλη τοῦ σώματοσ εὐθὺσ ἀπὸ γενέσεωσ πλάττειν τῶν τέκνων ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν, ἵνα ταῦτ’ ὀρθὰ καὶ ἀστραβῆ φύηται, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τὰ τῶν τέκνων ἤθη ῥυθμίζειν προσήκει. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 5 7:1)
  • ὃσ Ἕκτορ’ ἔσφαλε, Τροίασ ἄμαχον ἀστραβῆ κίονα, Κύκνον τε θανάτῳ πόρεν, Αοὖσ τε παῖδ’ Αἰθίοπα. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 2 26:1)

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

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