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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

  • τᾷ δρυῒ ταὶ βάλανοι κόσμοσ, τᾷ μαλίδι μᾶλα, τᾷ βοῒ δ’ ἁ μόσχοσ, τῷ βουκόλῳ αἱ βόεσ αὐταί. (Theocritus, Idylls, 62)
  • οἱο͂ν βουκόλῳ λέγεισ δούλῳ ἃ πρέπει εἰπεῖν ἀγριαινουσῶν βοῶν παραμυθουμένῳ, ὁ ῥαψῳδὸσ γνώσεται ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὁ βουκόλοσ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 62:5)
  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ἐπισκεψόμεθα, τόδε δὲ ἴσμεν, ὅτι βουκόλῳ γε οὐδεὶσ ἀμφισβητήσει περὶ τούτων οὐδενόσ, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ τῆσ ἀγέλησ τροφὸσ ὁ βουφορβόσ, αὐτὸσ ἰατρόσ, αὐτὸσ οἱο͂ν νυμφευτὴσ καὶ περὶ τοὺσ τῶν γιγνομένων τόκουσ καὶ λοχείασ μόνοσ ἐπιστήμων τῆσ μαιευτικῆσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 67:3)
  • "ὦ πάτερ, ἤδη τοι σάκοσ οἴσω καὶ δύο δοῦρε καὶ κυνέην πάγχαλκον, ἐπὶ κροτάφοισ ἀραρυῖαν αὐτόσ τ’ ἀμφιβαλεῦμαι ἰών, δώσω δὲ συβώτῃ καὶ τῷ βουκόλῳ ἄλλα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 15:1)
  • κάρτα τε ἔδοξε τῷ, βουκόλῳ πρὸσ τὰ παρεόντα εὖ λέγειν ἡ γυνή, καὶ αὐτίκα ἐποίεε ταῦτα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 113 2:1)
  • ποιμὴν καθέστηκ̓, αἰπολῶ καὶ βουκολῶ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:6)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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