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ἑρκίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑρκίον ἑρκίου

Structure: ἑρκι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e(/rkos

Sense

  1. a fence, inclosure

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

  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτε τισ κεράμῳ κατερέψεται ἑρκίον ἀνήρ, δώματοσ ἀγλαϊήν τε καὶ ὑετοῦ ἔμμεναι ἄλκαρ, ἄλλῳ δ’ ἔμπεδον ἄλλοσ ὁμῶσ ἐπαμοιβὸσ ἄρηρεν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 18:6)
  • καί μιν ποτὶ ἑρκίον αὐλῆσ εἷσεν ἀνακλίνασ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 18:10)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ δεκάτη μοι ἐπήλυθε νὺξ ἐρεβεννή, καὶ τότ’ ἐγὼ θαλάμοιο θύρασ πυκινῶσ ἀραρυίασ ῥήξασ ἐξῆλθον, καὶ ὑπέρθορον ἑρκίον αὐλῆσ ῥεῖα, λαθὼν φύλακάσ τ’ ἄνδρασ δμῳάσ τε γυναῖκασ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 26:8)
  • ἐρυθρά τε θάλαττα καὶ Νείλου καταρράκται καὶ λίμνη Μαιῶτισ, ἃ τοῖσ πρότερον ἐν πέρασι γῆσ ἠκούετο, ἴσα καὶ αὐλῆσ ἑρκία τῇδε τῇ πόλει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:12)
  • ἐν μέσῳ δὲ ἀπέχων οὐ πολὺ δεύτεροσ, προσβατὸσ βαθμίσιν ὀλίγαισ, ὃν περιεῖχεν ἑρκίον λιθίνου δρυφάκτου γραφῇ κωλῦον εἰσιέναι τὸν ἀλλοεθνῆ θανατικῆσ ἀπειλουμένησ τῆσ ζημίασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 493:2)

Synonyms

  1. a fence

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

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