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ἐκδρομή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκδρομή

Structure: ἐκδρομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kdramei=n, aor2 inf. of e)ktre/xw

Sense

  1. a running out, sally, charge
  2. a party of skirmishers

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

  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δὲ ὡσ προήγαγεν αὐτοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ νάπησ ἔξω, Φιλώταν μὲν ἀναλαβόντα τοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ ἄνωθεν Μακεδονίασ ἱππέασ προσέταξεν ἐμβάλλειν κατὰ τὸ κέρασ τὸ δεξιόν, ᾗπερ μάλιστα προὐκεχωρήκεσαν ἐν τῇ ἐκδρομῇ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 2 5:2)
  • Τῇ μὲν δὴ πρώτῃ ἡμέρᾳ προσάγοντοσ Ἀλεξάνδρου τῷ τείχει κατὰ τὰσ ἐπὶ Μύλασα φερούσασ πύλασ ἐκδρομή τε γίγνεται τῶν ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ ἀκροβολισμόσ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 20 4:1)
  • καὶ ἐκδρομὴ αὖθισ γίγνεται τῶν ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐπὶ τῷ ἐμπρῆσαι τὰσ μηχανάσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 21 5:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ καὶ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐπεφάνη ἐν τῇ ἐκδρομῇ, τάσ τε δᾷδασ, ὅσασ ἔχοντεσ ἐκβεβοηθήκεσαν, ἀφέντεσ καὶ τὰ ὅπλα οἱ πολλοὶ αὐτῶν ῥίψαντεσ εἴσω τοῦ τείχουσ ἔφευγον. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 21 5:4)
  • Οὐ πολλαῖσ δὲ ὕστερον ἡμέραισ ἐπάγοντοσ αὖθισ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰσ μηχανὰσ τῷ πλινθίνῳ τῷ ἐντὸσ τείχει καὶ αὐτοῦ ἐφεστηκότοσ τῷ ἔργῳ, ἐκδρομὴ γίνεται πανδημεὶ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ, τῶν μὲν κατὰ τὸ ἐρηριμμένον τεῖχοσ, ἧ αὐτὸσ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐπετέτακτο, τῶν δὲ κατὰ τὸ Τρίπυλον, ᾗ οὐδὲ πάνυ τι προσδεχομένοισ τοῖσ Μακεδόσιν ἦν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 22 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a party of skirmishers

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

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