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ἐμβολή?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: embolē

Principal Part: ἐμβολή

Structure: ἐμβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

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

  • δέσμιαι δὲ δημόσιαι μέχρι τῆς εἰς τὸ πλοῖον ἐμβολῆς εἵλκοντο μετὰ βίας. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:7)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἄδραστος ἐπὶ τὸν σῦν ἀφεὶς τὴν λόγχην ἐκείνου μὲν ἁμαρτήσεται, φονεύσει δὲ τὸν Κροίσου παῖδα, ὡς ἂν ἀπ ἰσχυρᾶς ἐμβολῆς τῶν Μοιρῶν φερομένου τοῦ ἀκοντίου ἐπὶ τὸν νεανίσκον. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 12:6)
  • ἢν δέ ποτε καὶ ἐφίκηται, ἄκρον μὲν ἐπιλίγδην ἅπτεται, βαθεῖαν δὲ οὐκ ἐργάζεται πληγὴν οὐ γὰρ ἀπ ἰσχυρᾶς ἐμβολῆς ἀπεστέλλετο. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 36:5)
  • καὶ οἱ τῷ ἕκτῳ δ᾿ 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 τ῾; (Arrian, chapter 12 16:1)
  • 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)

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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