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φορβάς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορβάς φορβάδος

Structure: φορβαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rbw

Sense

  1. giving pasture or food, feeding
  2. in the pasture, out at grass, grazing with the herd

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

  • ὦ Κύπρου δέσποινα, τεὸν δεῦτ’ ἐσ ἄλσοσ φορβάδων κορᾶν ἀγέλαν ἑκατόγγυιον Ξενοφῶν τελέαισ ἐπήγαγ’ εὐχωλαῖσ ἰανθείσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 33 1:3)
  • ἔπειτ’ ἀποστέλλοντεσ ἐκ τῶν χωρίων ποίμνασ τε καὶ βουκόλια καὶ φορβάδων ἀγέλασ ἵππων ἐπὶ νομὴν τῷ λόγῳ προὐκαλοῦντο τοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐπὶ ταῦτα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 20 1:3)
  • ἣ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἵππων τε φορβάδων καὶ βοῶν ἀγέλαισ προσῆλθεν, ἀπὸ δὲ τούτων εἴσ τ’ αἰπόλια καὶ ποίμνασ κατέσκηψε, καὶ διέφθειρεν ὀλίγου δεῖν πάντα τὰ τετράποδα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 67 1:2)
  • ἐπὶ θάτερα δὲ μέρη τὸ πεδίον ἐνέμοντο βοῶν ἀγέλαι καὶ ποῖμναι καὶ τὰ πλησίον ἕλη φορβάδων ἵππων ἔγεμε. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 8 4:3)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα παρελθὼν εἴσ τινα χώραν δυναμένην ἐκτρέφειν ἀγέλασ παμπληθεῖσ ἵππων, ἐν ᾗ τὸ παλαιὸν ἔφασαν ἑκκαίδεκα μυριάδασ ἵππων γεγονέναι φορβάδων, κατὰ δὲ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου παρουσίαν ἓξ μόναι μυριάδεσ ἠριθμήθησαν, ἐνταῦθα διαμείνασ ἡμέρασ τριάκοντα ἑβδομαῖοσ διήνυσεν εἰσ Ἐκβάτανα τῆσ Μηδείασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 110 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. in the pasture

Related

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

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