Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βάθρον

; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάθρον

Etym.: shortd. from bath/rion

Sense

  1. that on which anything stands
  2. a base, pedestal
  3. a stage or scaffold
  4. solid ground, foundations
  5. a step, the round of a ladder
  6. a bench, seat
  7. the verge

Examples

  • ὡσ δ’ εἰσ Ἄρειον ὄχθον ἧκον, ἐσ δίκην ἔστην, ἐγὼ μὲν θάτερον λαβὼν βάθρον, τὸ δ’ ἄλλο πρέσβειρ’ ἥπερ ἦν Ἐρινύων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:1)
  • ὁρᾶθ’ ὅσον στράτευμα ναύφρακτον τόδε, χαλκέων θ’ ὅπλων ἄνακτεσ Ἑλλήνων ὅσοι, οἷσ νόστοσ οὐκ ἔστ’ Ἰλίου πύργουσ ἔπι, εἰ μή σε θύσω, μάντισ ὡσ Κάλχασ λέγει, οὐδ’ ἔστι Τροίασ ἐξελεῖν κλεινὸν βάθρον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 4:5)
  • "τοῦτο μέντοι τὸ συνεκτικὸν ἁπάσησ κοινωνίασ καὶ νομοθεσίασ ἔρεισμα καὶ βάθρον οὐ κύκλῳ περιιόντεσ οὐδὲ κρύφα καὶ δι’ αἰνιγμάτων, ἀλλὰ τὴν πρώτην τῶν κυριωτάτων δοξῶν προσβαλόντεσ εὐθὺσ ἀνατρέπουσιν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 31 1:12)
  • "οὑτωσὶ λέγων ’ σκεύη κελεύοντι λέγειν ὁποῖα εἰπεῖν τρίπουσ, χύτρα, λυχνεῖον, ἀκταία, βάθρον, σπόγγοσ, λέβησ, σκαφεῖον, ὅλμοσ, λήκυθοσ, σπυρίσ, μάχαιρα, τρυβλίον, κρατήρ, ῥαφίσ, ἢ πάλιν ὄψων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 606)
  • προβᾶσ’ ἐπ’ ἔσχατον θράσουσ ὑψηλὸν ἐσ Δίκασ βάθρον προσέπεσεσ, ὦ τέκνον, πολύ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. that on which anything stands

  2. a base

  3. a stage or scaffold

  4. solid ground

  5. a step

  6. a bench

  7. the verge

Related

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

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