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εὐθυβολία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐθυβολία

Structure: εὐθυβολι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)qubo/los

Sense

  1. a direct throw

Declension

First 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

  • ἀθρόαισ γὰρ ἐμάχοντο ταῖσ ναυσὶ καὶ βαρείαισ πρὸσ κούφασ ἀλλαχόθεν ἄλλασ ἐπιφερομένασ, καὶ βαλλόμενοι λίθοισ ὁμοίαν ἔχουσι τὴν πληγὴν πανταχόθεν ἀντέβαλλον ἀκοντίοισ καὶ τοξεύμασιν, ὧν ὁ σάλοσ τὴν εὐθυβολίαν διέστρεφεν, ὥστε μὴ πάντα κατ’ αἰχμὴν προσφέρεσθαι. (Plutarch, , chapter 25 2:1)

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

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