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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

  • ἰδὼν δὲ Φόρβασ, ὃσ μοναμπύκων ἄναξ ἦν τοῖσ Ἐρεχθείδαισιν, ἁρμάτων ὄχλον, οἵ τ’ αὖ τὸ Κάδμου διεφύλασσον ἱππικόν, συνῆψαν ἀλκὴν κἀκράτουν ἡσσῶντό τε. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:5)
  • "ναυαγήσασ δ’ ὁ Φόρβασ καὶ Παρθενία ἡ τοῦ Φόρβαντοσ καὶ τοῦ Περιέργου ἀδελφὴ διενήξαντο εἰσ Ιἠλυσὸν περὶ τὸν καλούμενον τόπον Σχεδίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:16)
  • καὶ ὁ Φόρβασ οὕτωσ ἐπὶ τῷ ξενισμῷ ἥσθη ὡσ καὶ τὸν βίον τελευτῶν ἐπέσκηψε τοῖσ φίλοισ δι’ ἐλευθέρων τοὺσ ἐναγισμοὺσ ἐπιτελεῖν αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ ἔθοσ διαμένειν ἐν τῇ θυσίᾳ τοῦ Φόρβαντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:18)
  • τῶν δ’ υἱῶν τῶν Λαπίθου Φόρβασ μὲν εἰσ Ὤλενον παρῆλθεν, ἐξ ἧσ μεταπεμψάμενοσ αὐτὸν Ἀλέκτωρ ὁ τῆσ Ἠλείασ βασιλεὺσ βοηθόν, φοβούμενοσ τὴν Πέλοποσ δυναστείαν, τῆσ ἐν Ἤλιδι βασιλείασ μετέδωκεν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 69 2:3)
  • τῶν δὲ Ῥοδίων μεταπεμψαμένων αὐτὸν κατὰ τὴν μαντείαν καὶ μεταδόντων τῆσ χώρασ, ὁ μὲν Φόρβασ ἀνεῖλε τοὺσ ὄφεισ, καὶ τὴν νῆσον ἐλευθερώσασ τοῦ φόβου, κατῴκησεν ἐν τῇ Ῥοδίᾳ, γενόμενοσ δὲ καὶ τἄλλα ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸσ ἔσχε τιμὰσ ἡρωικὰσ μετὰ τὴν τελευτήν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 58 5:3)

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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