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βουκόλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βουκόλος βουκόλου

Structure: βουκολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: -kolos is prob. an altered form of -polos, cf. ai)po/los.

Sense

  1. A person who tends cattle: cowherd
  2. A follower of Dionysus

Declension

Second 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

  • ξυνήλθομεν δὲ βουκόλοι καὶ ποιμένεσ, κοινῶν λόγων δώσοντεσ ἀλλήλοισ ἔριν ὡσ δεινὰ δρῶσι θαυμάτων τ’ ἐπάξια· (Euripides, episode, trochees 5:1)
  • τρίτοι δέ εἰσιν Ἰνδοῖσιν οἱ νομέεσ, οἱ ποιμένεσ τε καὶ οἱ βουκόλοι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 11 11:1)
  • καὶ Ἀρχέστρατοσ ἐν τῷ πολυθρυλήτῳ ποιήματι καὶ σιτευτὸν χηνὸσ ὁμοῦ σκεύαζε νεοττόν, ὀπτὸν ἁπλῶσ καὶ τόνδε, σὺ δὲ ἡμῖν, ὦ Οὐλπιανέ, δίκαιοσ εἶ λέγειν, ὁ περὶ πάντων πάντασ ἀπαιτῶν, ποῦ μνήμησ ἠξίωται παρὰ τοῖσ ἀρχαίοισ τὰ πολυτελῆ ταῦτα τῶν χηνῶν ἥπατα, ὅτι γὰρ χηνοβοσκοὺσ οἴδασι μάρτυσ Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Διονυσαλεξάνδρῳ λέγων ’ χηνοβοσκοί, βουκόλοι Ὅμηροσ δὲ καὶ θηλυκῶσ καὶ ἀρσενικῶσ εἴρηκεν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 327)
  • ἀλλ’ οὗτοσ μὲν ἐξέθηκεν εἰσ Κιθαιρῶνα, Πολύβου δὲ βουκόλοι, τοῦ Κορινθίων βασιλέωσ, τὸ βρέφοσ εὑρόντεσ πρὸσ τὴν αὐτοῦ γυναῖκα Περίβοιαν ἤνεγκαν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 5 7:4)
  • τείωσ δ’ αὖτ’ ἀγέληθεν ἐπιπροέηκαν ἄγοντεσ βουκόλοι Αἰσονίδαο δύω βόε. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 8:7)

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