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ἐφόλκιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφόλκιον ἐφόλκιου

Structure: ἐφολκι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)fe/lkw

Sense

  1. a tow-boat, an appendage

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

  • ἐφόλκια δ’ ἦσαν αὐτῇ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον κέρκουροσ τρισχίλια τάλαντα δέχεσθαι δυνάμενοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 43 4:4)
  • ὄλπη μοι καὶ πήρη ἐφόλκια, καὶ τὸ παλαιὸν ἔσθοσ, χὠ φθιμένουσ ναυστολέων ὀβολόσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 67 1:1)
  • ὁρῶ δὲ ὅτι πολλὰ τῶν πόλεών ἐστιν ὥσπερ ἐφόλκια, οἷσ ἀνάγκη συγχωρεῖν ὥσπερ ἐν σώματι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 29:5)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν εἰσ Δικαιάρχειαν, εἶτ’ εἰσ Μασσαλίαν ἐλθεῖν καὶ τὴν ἑξῆσ παραλίαν μέχρι Γαδείρων, πανταχοῦ δὲ διακωδωνίζοντα ταῦτα καὶ χρηματιζόμενον κατασκευάσασθαι πλοῖον μέγα καὶ ἐφόλκια δύο λέμβοισ λῃστρικοῖσ ὅμοια, ἐμβιβάσαι τε μουσικὰ παιδισκάρια καὶ ἰατροὺσ καὶ ἄλλουσ τεχνίτασ, ἔπειτα πλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰνδικὴν μετέωρον ζεφύροισ συνεχέσι. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 3 8:28)

Related

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

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