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βοή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοή

Structure: βο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a loud cry, shout, a battle-cry, at the battle-cry, of war, the roar, sound, the cry, as far as sound went, only in appearance
  2. aid called for, succour

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

  • τοῦτό τε οὖν φυλακτέον τῷ λέγοντι, καὶ προσέτι μὴ καὶ τὴν φωνὴν αὐτὴν ἐπιταράττηται ^ ἐν οὕτωσ εὐφώνῳ καὶ ἠχήεντι οἴκῳ λέγων ἀντιφθέγγεται γὰρ καὶ ἀντιφωνεῖ καὶ ἀντιλέγει, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐπικαλύπτει τὴν βοήν, οἱο͂́ν τι καὶ σάλπιγξ δρᾷ τὸν αὐλόν, εἰ συναυλοῖεν, ἢ τοὺσ κελευστὰσ ἡ θάλαττα, ὁπόταν πρὸσ κύματοσ ἦχον ἐπᾴδειν τῇ εἰρεσίᾳ θέλωσιν ἐπικρατεῖ γὰρ ἡ μεγαλοφωνία καὶ κατασιωπᾷ τὸ ἧττον. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 16:3)
  • καὶ ἦσάν τινεσ οἱ μανίασ ἀρχὴν ταῦτα εἶναι νομίζοντεσ καὶ ἀπειλὴν καὶ ἀκροβολισμὸν οὐκ ἐσ μακρὰν ἐπιπεσουμένου τοῦ κακοῦ, μῖσοσ ἄλογον καὶ νόμον ἀπηνῆ καὶ βλασφημίασ προχείρουσ καὶ δικαστήριον σκυθρωπὸν καὶ βοὴν καὶ ὀργὴν καὶ ὅλωσ χολῆσ μεστὰ πάντα. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 3:6)
  • πλὴν ἀλλ’ ὅ γε λεὼσ ὁ πολὺσ τεθήπασιν αὐτούσ, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπόσουσ μηδὲν τῶν ἀναγκαιοτέρων ἀσχολεῖ, καὶ παρεστᾶσι πρὸσ τὸ θράσοσ καὶ τὴν βοὴν κεκηλημένοι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 11:11)
  • πᾶσ ^ δὲ ὁ τόνοσ τοῦ φθέγματοσ οἱο͂σ ἁπαλώτατοσ, οὔτε βαρὺσ ὡσ εἰσ τὸ ἀνδρεῖον ἡρμόσθαι οὔτε πάνυ λεπτὸσ ὡσ θηλύτατόσ τε εἶναι καὶ κομιδῇ ἔκλυτοσ, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂σ γένοιτ’ ἂν παιδὶ μήπω ἡβάσκοντι, ἡδὺσ καὶ προσηνὴσ καὶ πράωσ παραδυόμενοσ εἰσ τὴν ἀκοήν, ὡσ καὶ παυσαμένησ ἔναυλον εἶναι τὴν βοὴν καί τι λείψανον ἐνδιατρίβειν καὶ περιβομβεῖν τὰ ὦτα, καθάπερ ἠχώ τινα παρατείνουσαν τὴν ἀκρόασιν καὶ ἴχνη τῶν λόγων μελιχρὰ ἄττα καὶ πειθοῦσ μεστὰ ἐπὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀπολιμπάνουσαν. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 13:3)
  • εἰ γάρ τοι ἐξεγερθείη τῆσ εὐνῆσ λαγώσ, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅστισ ἂν ἀπόσχοιτο μὴ οὐκ ἐφεῖναι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ κύνα, ὃ μὲν ἐπιθυμίᾳ τοῦ θέουσαν ἰδεῖν τὴν αὑτοῦ ἕκαστοσ, ὃ δέ τισ ἐκπλαγεὶσ πρὸσ τὴν βοὴν καὶ ἔκφρων γενόμενοσ· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 20 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a loud cry

  2. aid called for

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

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