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βολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βολή

Structure: βολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ba/llw

Sense

  1. a throw, the stroke or wound, stroke or touch
  2. a glance
  3. bolts, beams, a, shower

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βολή βολᾱ́ βολαί
Genitive βολῆς βολαῖν βολῶν
Dative βολῇ βολαῖν βολαῖς
Accusative βολήν βολᾱ́ βολᾱ́ς
Vocative βολή βολᾱ́ βολαί

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

  • ὡσ ὅπλοισι χρυσέοισιν ἐκπρεπήσ, γέρον, ἑῴοισ ὅμοια φλεγέθων βολαῖσ ἀελίου. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 1:13)
  • κρᾶτα φόνιον ὀλεσίθηροσ ὠλένασ δικὼν βολαῖσ, δίασ ἀμάτοροσ <δ’> ἐσ βαθυσπόρουσ γύασ γαπετεῖσ δικὼν ὀδόν‐ τασ Παλλάδοσ φραδαῖσιν· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • ὦ τέκνα Δαναῶν, πρὶν κατεξάνθαι βολαῖσ, τί μέλλετ’ ἄρδην πάντεσ ἐμπίπτειν πύλαισ, γυμνῆτεσ ἱππῆσ ἁρμάτων τ’ ἐπιστάται; (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 8:3)
  • ὦ μῶρε μῶρε μὴ θεῶν κίνει φρένασ δεινάσ, ὅπωσ μή σου γένοσ πανώλεθρον Διὸσ μακέλλῃ πᾶν ἀναστρέψῃ Δίκη, λιγνὺσ δὲ σῶμα καὶ δόμων περιπτυχὰσ καταιθαλώσῃ σου Λικυμνίαισ βολαῖσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:14)
  • αἱ δ’ ἄλλαι πόλεισ πεσσῶν ὁμοίωσ διαφορηθεῖσαι βολαῖσ, ἄλλαι παρ’ ἄλλων εἰσὶν εἰσαγώγιμοι. (Plutarch, De exilio, section 13 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a glance

Similar forms

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

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