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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

  • ἐκδρομῆσ δὲ τῶν Κλουσίνων καὶ μάχησ παρὰ τὰ τείχη γενομένησ εἷσ τῶν Φαβίων, Κόιντοσ Ἄμβουστοσ, ἵππον ἔχων ἐλήλασεν ἀνατίοσ ἀνδρὶ μεγάλῳ καὶ καλῷ Γαλάτῃ πολὺ προϊππεύοντι τῶν ἄλλων, ἀγνοηθεὶσ ἐν ἀρχῇ διὰ τὸ τὴν σύνοδον ὀξεῖαν γενέσθαι καὶ τὰ ὅπλα περιλάμποντα τὴν ὄψιν ἀποκρύπτειν. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 17 4:2)
  • τῶν δὲ Ἀλεξάνδρου στρατιωτῶν ἀπέθανον μὲν ἐσ ἑκκαίδεκα, τραυματίαι δὲ ἐγένοντο ἐσ τριακοσίουσ, ὅτι ἐν νυκτὶ γενομένησ τῆσ ἐκδρομῆσ ἀφυλακτότεροι ἐσ τὸ τιτρώσκεσθαι ἦσαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 20 10:2)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ οἱ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὄρουσ τεταγμένοι οὔτε κατῄεσαν, ἐκδρομῆσ τε ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ τῶν Ἀγριάνων καὶ τῶν τοξοτῶν ὀλίγων κατὰ πρόσταξιν Ἀλεξάνδρου γενομένησ ῥᾳδίωσ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὑπωρείασ ἀνασταλέντεσ ἐσ τὸ ἄκρον ἀνέφυγον, ἔγνω καὶ τοῖσ κατ̓ αὐτοὺσ τεταγμένοισ δυνατὸσ ὢν χρήσασθαι ἐσ ἀναπλήρωσιν τῆσ φάλαγγοσ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 9 4:2)
  • ἕτεροι δ’ ὑπὸ ταῖσ πύλαισ αὐτῷ πυρφόροι καιρὸν ἐκδρομῆσ ἐπετήρουν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 5:3)
  • καὶ ὁπότε μὲν ἐπιστραφεῖεν οἱ καταλαμβανόμενοι, τοῦ τε δρόμου τοὺσ Ιοὐδαίουσ ἐπεῖχον καὶ διὰ τὴν ὁρμὴν ἧττον φυλαττομένουσ ἐτίτρωσκον, ἀεὶ δὲ πληθυούσησ τῆσ ἐκδρομῆσ μᾶλλον ταραττόμενοι τελευταῖον ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου τρέπονται. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 92:1)

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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