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ἐϋκνήμις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐϋκνήμις ἐϋκνήμιδος

Structure: ἐϋκνημιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. well-equipped with greaves, well-greaved

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

  • καί που καὶ μειράκια ὡραῖα διακονούμενα καὶ ἠρέμα προσμειδιῶντα γλαφυρωτέραν ὑπογράφει σοι τὴν μέλλουσαν διατριβήν, ὥστε συνεχῶσ τὸ Ὁμηρικὸν ἐκεῖνο ἐπιφθέγγεσθαι, οὐ νέμεσισ Τρῶασ καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιοὺσ πολλὰ πονεῖν καὶ ὑπομένειν ὑπὲρ τῆσ τοσαύτησ . (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 16:4)
  • οὗτοσ γάρ δὴ ὀνήσει ἐϋκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιούσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 47:2)
  • "ὦ γύναι, οὐ γὰρ ὀί̈ω ἐϋκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιοὺσ ἐκ Τροίησ εὖ πάντασ ἀπήμονασ ἀπονέεσθαι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 43:1)
  • βῆ δ’ ἴμεν εἰσ ἀγορὴν μετ’ ἐϋκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιούσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 21:2)
  • ἠδ’ ὡσ Τηλέπυλον Λαιστρυγονίην ἀφίκανεν, οἳ νῆάσ τ’ ὄλεσαν καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδασ ἑταίρουσ πάντασ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 23 36:4)
  • οὐ νέμεσισ Τρῶασ καὶ ἐυκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιοὺσ τοιῇδ’ ἀμφὶ γυναικὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα πάσχειν αἰνῶσ ἀθανάτῃσι θεῇσ1’ εἰσ ὦπα ἐοίκεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 13 2:1)
  • καὶ οἱ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ δὲ δημογέροντεσ θαυμάζοντεσ τῆσ Ἑλένησ τὸ κάλλοσ φασίν ου’ νέμεσισ Τρῶασ καὶ ἐυκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιοὺσ τοιῇδ’ ἀμφὶ γυναικὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα πάσχειν αἰνῶσ ἀθανάτῃσι θεῇσ εἰσ ὦπα ἐοίκεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 20 2:4)
  • σχέσθε, φίλοι, καί μ’ οἰο͂ν ἐάσατε πένθεϊ λυγρῷ τείρεσθ’, εἰ μή πού τι πατὴρ ἐμὸσ ἐσθλὸσ Ὀδυσσεὺσ δυσμενέων κάκ’ ἔρεξεν ἐυκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιούσ, τῶν μ’ ἀποτινύμενοι κακὰ ῥέζετε δυσμενέοντεσ, τούτουσ ὀτρύνοντεσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 5:17)

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

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