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ἔχις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔχις ἔχεως

Structure: ἐχι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. snake, adder, viper

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

  • τίσ δὲ τὰσ χελώνασ 1 ἐδίδαξε τῆσ ἔχεωσ φαγούσασ τὴν ὀρίγανον ἐπεσθίειν τὰσ δὲ Κρητικὰσ αἶγασ, ὅταν περιπέσωσι τοῖσ τοξεύμασι, τὸ δίκταμνον διώκειν, οὗ βρωθέντοσ ἐκβάλλουσι τὰσ ἀκίδασ; (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 9 4:1)
  • Ἀνδρέασ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ δακέτων τῶν μυραινῶν φησιν δακούσασ ἀναιρεῖν τὰσ ἐξ ἔχεωσ, εἶναι δ’ αὐτὰσ ἧττον καὶ περιφερεῖσ καὶ ποικίλασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 2:2)
  • ἡ δὲ χελώνη φαγοῦσα τὴν σάρκα τοῦ ἔχεωσ ὀρίγανον ἐπεσθίει· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 26 2:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἴ τισ ἰσχυρῶν καὶ ὑπερβαλλουσῶν ἡδονῶν ἡττᾶται ἢ λυπῶν, θαυμαστόν, ἀλλὰ συγγνωμονικὸν εἰ ἀντιτείνων, ὥσπερ ὁ Θεοδέκτου Φιλοκτήτησ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἔχεωσ πεπληγμένοσ ἢ ὁ Καρκίνου ἐν τῇ Ἀλόπῃ Κερκύων, καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ κατέχειν πειρώμενοι τὸν γέλωτα ἀθρόον ἐκκαγχάζουσιν, οἱο͂ν συνέπεσε Ξενοφάντῳ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 96:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ τὸ τοῦ δηχθέντοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἔχεωσ πάθοσ κἄμ’ ἔχει. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 489:2)

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