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ἐμβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβολή

Structure: ἐμβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)mba/llw

Sense

  1. a putting into, insertion
  2. a breaking in, inroad into an enemy's country, foray
  3. an assault, attack, charge, the charge made by one ship upon another, shocks
  4. the stroke
  5. a way into, entrance, pass
  6. the head of a battering-ram

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

  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ μόλισ ᾗ προσβολήν τινα ἡ νῆσοσ εἶχεν ἀποβιβάζει τῶν στρατιωτῶν τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ, οἳ κατόπιν ἐπιπεσόντεσ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ τοὺσ μὲν διέφθειρον αὐτῶν, τοὺσ δ’ ἠνάγκαζον ἀποκόπτοντασ τὰ πρυμνήσια τῶν νεῶν καὶ φεύγοντασ ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ ἀλλήλοισ τε συγκρούειν τὰ πλοῖα καὶ ταῖσ ἐμβολαῖσ ταῖσ περὶ τὸν Λούκουλλον ὑποπίπτειν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 12 4:1)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἤρκει τόξα, πᾶσ δ’ ἀπώλλυτο στρατὸσ δαμασθεὶσ ναί̈οισιν ἐμβολαῖσ ἰύζ’ ἄποτμον Πέρσαισ δυσαιανῆ βοὰν δᾴοισ, ὡσ πάντα παγκάκωσ ἔφθισαν· (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 2 1:1)
  • πόσον δὲ πλῆθοσ ἦν νεῶν Ἑλληνίδων, ὥστ’ ἀξιῶσαι Περσικῷ στρατεύματι μάχην συνάψαι ναί̈οισιν ἐμβολαῖσ; (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 1:3)
  • πεζούσ τε γὰρ καὶ θαλασσίουσ λινόπτεροι κυανώπιδεσ νᾶεσ μὲν ἄγαγον, ποποῖ, νᾶεσ δ’ ἀπώλεσαν, τοτοῖ, νᾶεσ πανωλέθροισιν ἐμβολαῖσ, αἵ τ’ Ιαὄνων χέρεσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • αὖθισ δὲ Σκηπίωνοσ ἐπιόντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ ὑπάτου, πρὶν ἐν ἐμβολαῖσ ὑσσῶν γενέσθαι τὰσ φάλαγγασ, οἱ Σκηπίωνοσ ἀσπασάμενοι τοὺσ Πομπηϊού μετεβάλοντο, Σκηπίων δὲ ἔφυγε, τέλοσ δὲ Κάρβωνοσ αὐτοῦ περὶ τὸν Ἄρσιν ποταμὸν ἱππέων συχνὰσ ἴλασ ἐφέντοσ, εὐρώστωσ ὑποστὰσ καὶ τρεψάμενοσ εἰσ χαλεπὰ καὶ ἄφιππα χωρία πάντασ ἐμβάλλει διώκων οἱ δὲ τὴν σωτηρίαν ἀνέλπιστον ὁρῶντεσ ἐνεχείρισαν αὑτοὺσ μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τῶν ἵππων. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 7 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a putting into

  2. the stroke

  3. a way into

  4. the head of a battering-ram

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

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