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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

  • καὶ τὰ ἆθλα οὐ βοείη τισ ἦν, κατὰ τὸν ποιητήν, οὐδὲ ἱερεῖον, ἀλλὰ μύριαι κατὰ τὸν ἐνιαυτόν, ἐφ’ ὅτῳ συνεῖναι τοῖσ νέοισ. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 3:3)
  • τοῖσ μὲν γὰρ σάρκασ τε καὶ ἔγκατα πίονα δημῷ ἐν ῥινῷ κατέθηκε καλύψασ γαστρὶ βοείῃ, τῷ δ’ αὖτ’ ὀστέα λευκὰ βοὸσ δολίῃ ἐπὶ τέχνῃ εὐθετίσασ κατέθηκε καλύψασ ἀργέτι δημῷ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:15)

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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