Hellas Alive Dictionary - επαλξις

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ἔπαλξις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔπαλξις ἔπαλξεως

Structure: ἐπαλξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pale/cw

Sense

a means of defence, battlements, the battlements, parapet
a defence, protection

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἔπαλξις	ἐπάλξει	ἐπάλξεις
Genitive	ἐπάλξεως	ἐπάλξοιν	ἐπάλξεων
Dative	ἐπάλξει	ἐπάλξοιν	ἐπάλξεσιν*
Accusative	έ̓παλξιν	ἐπάλξει	ἐπάλξεις
Vocative	έ̓παλξι	ἐπάλξει	ἐπάλξεις

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

ὁ δὲ Δημήτριοσ ἐπισκευάσασ τὰ πεπονηκότα τῶν ἔργων προσέβαλλε τῷ τείχει τὰσ μηχανὰσ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ βέλεσιν ἀφειδῶσ χρώμενοσ τοὺσ μὲν ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἐπάλξεσιν ἐφεστῶτασ ἀνεῖρξε, τοῖσ δὲ κριοῖσ τύπτων τὸ συνεχὲσ τοῦ τόπου δύο μὲν μεσοπύργια κατέβαλε, περὶ δὲ τὸν πύργον τὸν ἀνὰ μέσον τούτων φιλοτιμουμένοισ τοῖσ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἰσχυροὶ καὶ συνεχεῖσ ἐκ διαδοχῆσ ἀγῶνεσ ἐγίνοντο, ὥστε καὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν αὐτῶν Ἀνανίαν ἐκθύμωσ ἀγωνισάμενον ἀναιρεθῆναι καὶ συχνοὺσ τῶν ἄλλων στρατιωτῶν ἀποθανεῖν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 97 7:1)
ὣσ οἳ μὲν κατὰ ἄστυ πεφυζότεσ ἠύ̈τε νεβροὶ ἱδρῶ ἀπεψύχοντο πίον τ’ ἀκέοντό τε δίψαν κεκλιμένοι καλῇσιν ἐπάλξεσιν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 1:1)
Ἐγειρομένου δὲ τοῦ χώματοσ ἤδη καὶ ταῖσ ἐπάλξεσιν ὅσον οὔπω πλησιάζοντοσ δεινὸν ὁ Ιὤσηποσ νομίσασ, εἰ μηδὲν ἀντιμηχανήσαιτο τῇ πόλει σωτήριον, συναθροίζει τέκτονασ καὶ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἐκέλευσεν ὑψοῦν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 213:1)
τῶν γὰρ Μακεδόνων προσαγόντων πύργουσ ὑψηλοὺσ ἴσουσ τοῖσ τείχεσι καὶ διὰ τούτων τὰσ ἐπιβάθρασ ἐπιβαλλόντων καὶ θρασέωσ ταῖσ ἐπάλξεσιν ἐπιβαινόντων οἱ μὲν Τύριοι διὰ τὴν ἐπίνοιαν τῶν ὀργανοποιῶν πολλὰ πρὸσ τὴν τειχομαχίαν εἶχον βοηθήματα. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 43 7:1)

Synonyms

a means of defence
- ἀμυντήριον (a means of defence)
a defence
- ῥῦμα (a defence, protection, of defence)
- φράγμα (a defence)
- σκέπη (protection)

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

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ἔπαλξις

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a defence

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Sense

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a means of defence

a defence

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