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φαλάγγιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαλάγγιον φαλάγγιου

Structure: φαλαγγι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = fa/lagc III, Plat., Xen.

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • ὥσπερ οὖν ἐχίδνασ καὶ κανθαρίδασ καὶ φαλάγγια μᾶλλον προβαλλόμεθα καὶ δυσχεραίνομεν ἄρκτων καὶ λεόντων, ὅτι κτείνει καὶ ἀπόλλυσιν ἀνθρώπουσ μηδὲν χρώμενα τοῖσ ἀπολλυμένοισ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 6 3:1)
  • "διὸ καὶ χείριστοί εἰσι κατὰ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον, ἀποτίκτει δ’ ὁ μὲν πουλύπουσ ἢ εἰσ θαλάμασ ἢ εἰσ κεράμιον ἤ τι ἄλλο τοιοῦτο κοῖλον, καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέρασ πεντήκοντα ἐκ τῶν ᾠῶν πουλυπόδια ἐξέρπει ὥσπερ τὰ φαλάγγια πολλά, ὁ δὲ θῆλυσ πουλύπουσ ὁτὲ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ᾠοῖσ, ὁτὲ δ’ ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι προκάθηται τῆσ θαλάμησ, τὴν πλεκτάνην ἐπέχων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1047)
  • οὐκ οἶσθ’ ὅτι τὰ φαλάγγια οὐδ’ ἡμιωβελιαῖα τὸ μέγεθοσ ὄντα προσαψάμενα μόνον τῷ στόματι ταῖσ τε ὀδύναισ ἐπιτρίβει τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ τοῦ φρονεῖν ἐξίστησι; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 3 15:3)
  • ἐνίησι γάρ τι τὰ φαλάγγια κατὰ τὸ δῆγμα. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 3 15:5)
  • Φέρει δ’ ἡ γῆ καὶ τῶν ἑρπετῶν ἔνια τῶν θανασίμων καὶ σκορπίουσ καὶ φαλάγγια· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 4 8:4)

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

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