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ἔγκυος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκυος ἔγκυον

Structure: ἐγκυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ku/w

Sense

Declension

First/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

  • ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον δ’ ἐπτόηνται περὶ τὴν ὀχείαν οἱ πέρδικεσ καὶ οἱ ὄρτυγεσ ὡσ εἰσ τοὺσ θηρεύοντασ ἐμπίπτειν καθίζοντασ ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν φασὶ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἀγομένουσ θήλεισ πέρδικασ ἐπὶ θήραν, ὁπόταν ἴδωσιν ἢ ὄσφρωνται τῶν ἀρρένων κατ’ ἄνεμον στάντων ἢ περιπετομένων, ἐγκύουσ γίγνεσθαι, τινὲσ δὲ καὶ παραυτίκα τίκτειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 41 6:1)
  • εἶθ’ οἱ γενναιότατοι καὶ πρῶτοσ αὐτὸσ ὁ πατὴρ τὰσ ἀπατηθείσασ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ γενομένασ ἐγκύουσ καθειργνυμένασ ἢ καταποντιζομένασ περιορᾷ καὶ τοὺσ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γεγονότασ οὔτε σώζειν δύναται κρατούμενοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ εἱμαρμένησ οὔτ’ ἀδακρυτὶ τοὺσ θανάτουσ αὐτῶν ὑπομένειν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 214:1)
  • Τίμαιοσ δ’ ἐν τῇ ιγ’ τῶν ἱστοριῶν περὶ τοῦ Σικελικοῦ πολιχνίου λέγω δὲ τῶν Ὑκάρων διαλεγόμενοσ προσαγορευθῆναί φησι τὸ πολίχνιον διὰ τὸ τοὺσ πρώτουσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐλθόντασ ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον ἰχθῦσ εὑρεῖν τοὺσ καλουμένουσ ὕκασ καὶ τούτουσ ἐγκύουσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 132 1:2)
  • χρὴ δὲ καὶ τὰσ ἐγκύουσ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τῶν σωμάτων, μὴ ῥᾳθυμούσασ μηδ’ ἀραιᾷ τροφῇ χρωμένασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 290:1)
  • μὴ παῖδασ αὐτοῖσ καταλειφθῆναι νηπίουσ, μὴ γυναῖκασ ἐγκύουσ, μὴ ἀδελφοὺσ ἀνήβουσ, μὴ πατέρασ ἐν ἀκμῇ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 22 6:1)

Related

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

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