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εὐλή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐλή

Structure: εὐλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

a worm or maggot

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	εὐλή	εὐλᾱ́	εὐλαί
Genitive	εὐλῆς	εὐλαῖν	εὐλῶν
Dative	εὐλῇ	εὐλαῖν	εὐλαῖς
Accusative	εὐλήν	εὐλᾱ́	εὐλᾱ́ς
Vocative	εὐλή	εὐλᾱ́	εὐλαί

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

εἶτα πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον ἀεὶ στρέφουσιν ἐναντία τὰ ὄμματα, καὶ μυιῶν προσκαθημένων πλῆθοσ πᾶν ἀποκρύπτεται τὸ πρόσωπον, ἐντὸσ δὲ ποιοῦντοσ ὅσα ποιεῖν ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν ἐσθίοντασ ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ πίνοντασ, εὐλαὶ καὶ σκώληκεσ ὑπὸ φθορᾶσ καὶ σηπεδόνοσ ἐκ τοῦ περιττώματοσ ἀναζέουσιν, ὑφ’ ὧν ἀναλίσκεται τὸ σῶμα διαδυομένων εἰσ τὰ ἐντόσ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 16 3:1)
νῦν δὲ σὲ μὲν παρὰ νηυσὶ κορωνίσι νόσφι τοκήων αἰόλαι εὐλαὶ ἔδονται, ἐπεί κε κύνεσ κορέσωνται γυμνόν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 44:22)
δυωδεκάτη δέ οἱ ἠὼσ κειμένῳ, οὐδέ τί οἱ χρὼσ σήπεται, οὐδέ μιν εὐλαὶ ἔσθουσ’, αἵ ῥά τε φῶτασ ἀρηϊφάτουσ κατέδουσιν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 42:3)
τῶν γὰρ ζῴων τὰ μὲν χωρὶσ μίξεωσ γίνεσθαι, ὡσ τὰ πυρίβια καὶ ὁ Ἀράβιοσ φοῖνιξ καὶ εὐλαί· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. ia'. PURRWN 19:6)
ἐπλήσθη γὰρ ὑδέρῳ, καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ζῶντι ἐγένοντο εὐλαί. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 3:4)

Synonyms

a worm or maggot
- φθείρ (a worm)
- σκώληξ (worm)

Similar forms

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

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εὐλή

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a worm or maggot

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εὐλή

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a worm or maggot

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