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ἐμβολεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβολεύς ἐμβολέως

Structure: ἐμβολευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)mba/llw

Sense

  1. anything put in: a dibble for setting plants

Declension

Third 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

  • τότε τοίνυν ἐγὼ τὴν μὲν λόγχην ἀκοντίσασ διέπειρα τὸν ἵππαρχον αὐτῶν καὶ τὸν ἵππον, ἐπὶ δὲ τὸ συνεστηκὸσ ἔτι αὐτῶν ‐ ἦσαν γάρ τινεσ οἳ ἔμενον διαλύσαντεσ μὲν τὴν φάλαγγα, ἐσ πλαίσιον δὲ συναγαγόντεσ αὑτούσ ‐ ἐπὶ τούτουσ ἐγὼ σπασάμενοσ τὴν σπάθην ἅπαντα τῷ θυμῷ ἐπελάσασ ἀνατρέπω μὲν ὅσον ἑπτὰ τοὺσ προεστῶτασ αὐτῶν τῇ ἐμβολῇ τοῦ ἵππου· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:2)
  • ἐκ τούτου Κλεομένη πρῶτον οἱ ἔφοροι πέμπουσι καταληψόμενον τὸ περὶ τὴν Βέλβιναν Ἀθήναιον, ἐμβολὴ δὲ τῆσ Λακωνικῆσ τὸ χωρίον ἐστί, καὶ τότε πρὸσ τοὺσ Μεγαλοπολίτασ ἦν ἐπίδικον. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 4 1:1)
  • πρῶτον τοιγαροῦν ἢν μὲν ἡ καρδίη πάθῃ, οὐκ εἰσ μακρὸν τοῦ θανάτου ἡ ἐμβολή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 6)
  • Ἐστὶ δὲ ἐμβολὴ ὤμου, καὶ ἐσ τοὐπίσω ὑπερβάλλοντα τὸν πῆχυν ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥάχιν, ἔπειτα τῇ μὲν ἑτέρῃ χειρὶ ἀνακλᾷν ἐσ τὸ ἄνω τοῦ ἀγκῶνοσ ἐχόμενον, τῇ δὲ ἑτέρῃ παρὰ τὸ ἄρθρον ὄπισθεν ἐρείδειν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 2.4)
  • Αὕτη ἡ ἐμβολὴ, καὶ ἡ πρόσθεν εἰρημένη, οὐ κατὰ φύσιν ἐοῦσαι, ὅμωσ ἀμφισφάλλουσαι τὸ ἄρθρον, ἀναγκάζουσιν ἐμπίπτειν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 2.5)

Similar forms

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

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