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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

  • καὶ οἱ τῷ ἕκτῳ δ̓ ἐφεστηκότεσ εἰ καὶ μὴ αὐταῖσ ταῖσ σαρίσαισ ἀλλὰ τῷ γε βάρει τῶν σωμάτων συνεπήρειδον τοῖσ πρὸ σφῶν τεταγμένοισ, ὡσ τήν τε ἐμβολὴν τὴν ἐσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ τ̣̔ (Arrian, chapter 12 16:1)
  • ἀμπνοὰσ δ’ οὐ σωφρονίζει, ταῦροσ ὣσ ἐσ ἐμβολὴν δεινόσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, trochees8)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐμβολὴν τῶν ὀβελίσκων πληροῦται θαλάσσησ ἡ δῖνα καὶ παραγίνεται ἰχθύων πλῆθοσ τοσοῦτον καὶ τοιοῦτον ὥστε ἐκπλήττεσθαι τὸ ἀόρατον τοῦ πράγματοσ, τῷ δὲ μεγέθει τοιούτων ὥστε καὶ εὐλαβηθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 8 1:2)
  • λαβὼν οὖν ὁ νεανίασ ἱππεῖσ τε χιλίουσ τριακοσίουσ, ὧν οἱ χίλιοι παρὰ Καίσαροσ ἦσαν, καὶ τοξότασ πεντακοσίουσ καὶ τῶν ἔγγιστα θυρεοφόρων ὀκτὼ σπείρασ συνήγαγεν εἰσ ἐμβολήν. (Plutarch, chapter 25 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Μάρκελλοσ, ὡσ μὴ φθαῖεν αὐτὸν ἐγκυκλωσάμενοι καὶ περιχυθέντεσ ὀλιγοστὸν ὄντα, τὰσ ἴλασ ἦγε πόρρω τῶν ἱππέων καὶ περιήλαυνε, λεπτὸν ἐκτείνων τὸ κέρασ, ἄχρι οὗ μικρὸν ἀπέσχε τῶν πολεμίων, Ἤδη δέ πωσ εἰσ ἐμβολὴν ἐπιστρέφοντοσ αὐτοῦ συντυγχάνει τὸν ἵππον πτυρέντα τῇ γαυρότητι τῶν πολεμίων ἀποτραπέσθαι καὶ βίᾳ φέρειν ὀπίσω τὸν Μάρκελλον. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 6 5:1)

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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