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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

  • Ἀτρεί̈δαι τε καὶ ἄλλοι ἐϋκνήμιδεσ Ἀχαιοί, ὑμῖν μὲν θεοὶ δοῖεν Ὀλύμπια δώματ’ ἔχοντεσ ἐκπέρσαι Πριάμοιο πόλιν, εὖ δ’ οἴκαδ’ ἱκέσθαι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 3:5)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε μίμνετε πάντεσ ἐϋκνήμιδεσ Ἀχαιοὶ αὐτοῦ εἰσ ὅ κεν ἄστυ μέγα Πριάμοιο ἕλωμεν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 27:18)
  • κέκλυτέ μευ Τρῶεσ καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδεσ Ἀχαιοὶ μῦθον Ἀλεξάνδροιο, τοῦ εἵνεκα νεῖκοσ ὄρωρεν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 12:3)
  • κέκλυτέ μευ Τρῶεσ καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδεσ Ἀχαιοί· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 37:3)
  • Τληπόλεμον δ’ ἑτέρωθεν ἐϋκνήμιδεσ Ἀχαιοὶ ἐξέφερον πολέμοιο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 70:1)
  • "Τηλέμαχ’, ἤδη μέν τοι ἐυκνήμιδεσ ἑταῖροι ἡάτ’ ἐπήρετμοι τὴν σὴν ποτιδέγμενοι ὁρμήν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 44:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἀνόρουσαν ἐυκνήμιδεσ Ἀχαιοὶ ἠχῇ θεσπεσίῃ, δίχα δέ σφισιν ἥνδανε βουλή. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 16:5)
  • ἓξ δ’ ἀφ’ ἑκάστησ νηὸσ ἐυκνήμιδεσ ἑταῖροι ὤλονθ’· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 3:7)
  • ἀρνειὸν δ’ ἐμοὶ οἰῴ ἐυκνήμιδεσ ἑταῖροι μήλων δαιομένων δόσαν ἔξοχα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 59:3)

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

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