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ἕρκος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕρκος ἕρκεος

Structure: ἑρκο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rgw, ei(/rgw

Sense

  1. a fence, hedge, wall, the place enclosed, the court-yard, the ring or wall, the teeth
  2. any fence, a defence against
  3. a net, toils, snare

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐπεὰν ὦν τῷ ἑρ́κεϊ πελάσωσι, τήν τε φωνὴν ἀκούοντεσ τῶν θηλέων καὶ τῆσ ὀδμῆσ αἰσθόμενοι, δρόμῳ ἱένται ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸν χῶρον τὸν πεφραγμένον· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 13 7:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι αἰσθόμενοι τὴν ἔσοδον τῶν ἐλεφάντων τῶν ἀγρίων, οἱ μὲν αὐτῶν τὴν γέφυραν ὀξέωσ ἀπεῖλον, οἱ δὲ ἐπὶ τὰσ πέλασ κώμασ ἀποδραμόντεσ ἀγγέλλουσι τοὺσ ἐλέφαντασ ὅτι ἐν τῷ ἑρ́κεϊ ἔχονται οἳ δὲ ἀκούσαντεσ ἐπιβαίνουσι τῶν κρατίστων τε καὶ χειροηθεστάτων ἐλεφάντων, ἐπιβάντεσ δὲ ἐλαύνουσιν ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ ἑρ́κοσ, ἐλάσαντεσ δὲ οὐκ αὐτίκα μάχησ ἅπτονται, ἀλλὰ ἐῶσι γὰρ λιμῷ τε ταλαιπωρηθῆναι τοὺσ ἀγρίουσ ἐλέφαντασ καὶ ὑπὸ τῷ δίψεϊ δουλωθῆναι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 13 8:1)
  • καὶ τῶνδ’ ἀποίσεισ σῆμ’, ὃ κεῖνοσ εὐμαθὲσ σφραγῖδοσ ἑρ́κει τῷδ’ ἐπὸν μαθήσεται. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 2:4)
  • ἡ παλίουροσ ἐγώ, τρηχὺ ξύλον, οὖροσ ἐν ἑρ́κει· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4141)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτ’ ἂν ἢ κίχλαι τανυσίπτεροι ἠὲ πέλειαι ἑρ́κει ἐνιπλήξωσι, τό θ’ ἑστήκῃ ἐνὶ θάμνῳ, αὖλιν ἐσιέμεναι, στυγερὸσ δ’ ὑπεδέξατο κοῖτοσ, ὣσ αἵ γ’ ἑξείησ κεφαλὰσ ἔχον, ἀμφὶ δὲ πάσαισ δειρῇσι βρόχοι ἦσαν, ὅπωσ οἴκτιστα θάνοιεν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 76:2)

Synonyms

  1. any fence

Related

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

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