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βοείη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοείη

Structure: βοει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. an ox-hide, ox-hide shield

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

  • παρακούοντεσ ἔνιοι βοείαισ θριξὶν οἰόνται πρὸσ τὰσ ὁρμιὰσ χρῆσθαι τοὺσ παλαιούσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 24 9:1)
  • οὐδ’ ἐνὶ γαίῃ ἔστι θέμισ στείλαντασ ὕπερθ’ ἐπὶ σῆμα χέεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἀδεψήτοισι κατειλύσαντε βοείαισ δενδρέων ἐξάπτειν ἑκὰσ ἄστεοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 4:25)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐπεὶ οὖν σπείρῃσιν ἐκαρτύναντο βοείαισ χεῖρασ καὶ περὶ γυῖα μακροὺσ εἵλιξαν ἱμάντασ, ἐσ μέσσον σύναγον φόνον ἀλλήλοισι πνέοντεσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 55)
  • Καῖσαρ δ’ ἐγγὺσ ἔλαμπεν Ιοὔλιοσ, ὅσ ποτε Ῥώμην ἀντιβίων ἔστεψεν ἀμετρήτοισι βοείαισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. an ox-hide

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

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