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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

  • ]αν πόλιν ]σί τε νίκα[σ αὐ]λῶν βοαὶ σύμφωνα πνείο]υσαι· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 9 8:3)
  • παντᾷ, δὲ χοροὶ παρθένων λυρᾶν τε βοαὶ καναχαί τ’ αὐλῶν δονέονται· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 10 12:2)
  • παρὰ πᾶσαν δὴ τὴν ὄχθην φυλακαί τε αὐτῷ καθεστηκυῖαι ἦσαν, διαλείπουσαι ὅσον ξύμμετρον ἐσ τὸ ξυνορᾶν τε ἀλλήλουσ καὶ κατακούειν εὐπετῶσ ὁπόθεν τι παραγγέλλοιτο, καὶ πανταχόθεν βοαί τε νύκτωρ ἐπὶ πολλὰσ νύκτασ ἐγίγνοντο καὶ πυρὰ ἐκαίετο. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 11 2:2)
  • τὸ δὲ κῦροσ τούτων γνῶναί τε καὶ ἅμα γνόντα δικάσαι, ζημιοῦν τε αὖ τὸν μὴ πειθόμενον, οὐ σῦριγξ ἦν οὐδέ τινεσ ἄμουσοι βοαὶ πλήθουσ, καθάπερ τὰ νῦν, οὐδ’ αὖ κρότοι ἐπαίνουσ ἀποδιδόντεσ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ μὲν γεγονόσι περὶ παίδευσιν δεδογμένον ἀκούειν ἦν αὐτοῖσ μετὰ σιγῆσ διὰ τέλουσ, παισὶ δὲ καὶ παιδαγωγοῖσ καὶ τῷ πλείστῳ ὄχλῳ ῥάβδου κοσμούσησ ἡ νουθέτησισ ἐγίγνετο. (Plato, Laws, book 3 146:1)
  • τοῖσ δὴ παιδίοισ τὸ δήλωμα ὧν ἐρᾷ καὶ μισεῖ κλαυμοναὶ καὶ βοαί, σημεῖα οὐδαμῶσ εὐτυχῆ· (Plato, Laws, book 7 25:2)

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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