Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • δαιτρὸσ δὲ κρειῶν πίνακασ παρέθηκεν ἀείρασ, καὶ τούτων ὀπτῶν καὶ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ βοείων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 15 1:2)
  • Σίλφιον δὲ καὶ ὀπὸσ ἔστι μὲν οἷσι μάλιστα, τοῖσι δὲ ἀπείροισιν οὐ διέρχεται τῇ κοιλίῃ, ἀλλὰ καλέεται ξηρὴ χολέρη‧ μάλιστα δὲ γίγνεται, ἢν μετὰ πολλοῦ τυροῦ μιχθῇ ἢ κρεηφαγίησ βοείων κρεῶν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.14)
  • Τὰ μὲν γὰρ μελαγχολικὰ παθήματα καὶ παροξυνθείη ἂν ὑπὸ βοείων κρεῶν‧ ἀνυπέρβλητοσ γὰρ ἡ φύσισ αὐτέων, καὶ οὐ τῆσ τυχούσησ κοιλίησ καταπέψαι‧ βέλτιστα δ’ἂν ἀπαλλάξαιεν, εἰ διέφθοισί τε χρέοιντο καὶ ὡσ παλαιοτάτοισιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.15)
  • εὐωχεῖ γε μὴν ἀπὸ κρεῶν τοὺσ ἡρ́ωασ, καὶ τούτων βοείων, δῆλον ὅτι ἰσχύοσ, οὐχ ἡδονῆσ ἕνεκεν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 56:2)
  • βοείων δὲ εἴρχθην τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:16)

Synonyms

  1. an ox-hide

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION