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εἱρκτή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἱρκτή

Structure: εἱρκτ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ei(/rgw

Sense

  1. an inclosure, prison, the inner part of the house, the women's apartments

Declension

First 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

  • τίσ δὲ οὐκ ἂν εἰκάσαι, χλωροὺσ καὶ κομήτασ ὁρῶν ἀνθρωπίσκουσ κειμένουσ, τὴν πόλιν ἀποροῦσαν συμμάχων τοὺσ ἐν τῇ εἱρκτῇ κακούργουσ ἐπιλῦσαι τῷ πολέμῳ; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 50:4)
  • λέγεται δὲ τῶν μὲν πάνυ παλαιῶν Ἄκαστον φθειριάσαντα τὸν Πελίου τελευτῆσαι, τῶν δὲ ὑστέρων Ἀλκμᾶνα τὸν μελοποιὸν καὶ Φερεκύδην τὸν θεολόγον καὶ Καλλισθένη τὸν Ὀλύνθιον ἐν εἱρκτῇ φρουρούμενον, ἔτι δὲ Μούκιον τὸν νομικόν. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 36 3:4)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ εὐθὺσ ἀναιρεθῆναι λέγουσι τὴν κόρην, οἱ δ’ ἐν εἱρκτῇ φυλαττομένην ἀδήλῳ διατελέσαι δόξαν τῷ δήμῳ παρασχοῦσαν ἀφανοῦσ θανάτου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 79 2:1)
  • ἀποκριναμένου δὲ τοῦ μειρακίου ὁπόσα τοὺσ ἐν ἀπογνώσει βίου κειμένουσ ἡ τοῦ σωθήσεσθαι ἐλπὶσ τοῖσ κυρίοισ τούτου λέγειν καὶ ὑπισχνεῖσθαι ἐπαίρει, λῦσαι κελεύσασ αὐτὸν ὁ Νεμέτωρ καὶ πάντασ ἀπελθεῖν ἐκποδῶν φράζει τὰσ αὑτοῦ τύχασ, ὡσ Ἀμόλιοσ αὐτὸν ἀδελφὸσ ὢν ἀπεστέρησε τῆσ βασιλείασ ὀρφανόν τε τέκνων ἔθηκε, τὸν μὲν ἐπὶ θήρᾳ κρύφα διαχειρισάμενοσ, τὴν δ’ ἐν εἱρκτῇ δεδεμένην φυλάττων, τά τε ἄλλα ὁπόσα δεσπότησ χρώμενοσ δούλῳ λωβᾶται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 81 9:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἦν ἡ Κνωσίων εἱρκτὴ καὶ τὸ τοῦ Λαβυρίνθου σκολιὸν πρὸσ τὴν σκολιότητα καὶ τὸ δυσεύρετον τῆσ ἀφροσύνησ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 16:1)

Synonyms

  1. an inclosure

    • μυχός (the inmost part of a house, the women's apartments)

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

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