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ἐνήλατον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνήλατον ἐνήλατου

Structure: ἐνηλατ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)nelau/nw

Sense

  1. anything driven in, the rounds, fixed in
  2. the pins driven into the axle, linchpins

Declension

Second 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

  • τοιόνδε τὸν στρατηγὸν αἱρεῖσθαι χρεών, ὃσ ἔν τε τοῖσ δεινοῖσίν ἐστιν ἄλκιμοσ μισεῖ θ’ ὑβριστὴν λαόν, ὃσ πράσσων καλῶσ ἐσ ἄκρα βῆναι κλιμάκων ἐνήλατα ζητῶν ἀπώλεσ’ ὄλβον ᾧ χρῆσθαι παρῆν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:1)
  • καὶ ταῦθ’ ἅμ’ ἠγόρευε καὶ πετρούμενοσ ἀνεῖρφ’ ὑπ’ αὐτὴν ἀσπίδ’ εἱλίξασ δέμασ, κλίμακοσ ἀμείβων ξέστ’ ἐνηλάτων βάθρα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 11:7)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐνήλατον τοῦ θρόνου χεῖρεσ ἦσαν δεχόμεναι τὸν βασιλέα, ἀνακέκλιτο δ’ εἰσ μόσχου προτομὴν τὰ κατόπιν αὐτοῦ βλέποντοσ, χρυσῷ δὲ ἅπασ ἦν δεδεμένοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 176:2)

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

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