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φορβεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορβεία

Structure: φορβει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: forbh/

Sense

  1. a feeding-string, the halter by which a horse is tied to the manger
  2. a mouthband, put like a halter

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

  • καὶ τυμπάνων ἐγχαράξεισ εὐσέβειαν ὀνομάζων καὶ θεῶν λατρείαν, οὗτοσ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἤθη τηνικαῦτα παρ’ οὐδὲν ἦλθεν ἀνατρέψαι καὶ ἀνελεῖν, τὰσ Ἀντωνίου τρυφὰσ καὶ ἀκολασίασ καὶ πανηγυρισμοὺσ ἱλαρὰ πράγματα καὶ φιλάνθρωπα χρωμένησ ἀφθόνωσ αὐτῷ δυνάμεωσ καὶ τύχησ ὑποκοριζόμενοσ Πτολεμαίῳ δὲ τί περιῆψεν ἄλλο φορβειὰν καὶ αὐλούσ, τί δὲ Νέρωνι τραγικὴν ἐπήξατο σκηνὴν καὶ προσωπεῖα· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 12 16:1)
  • ἐν δὲ Λυαίου νηῷ φορβειὰν ^ θήκατο καὶ καλάμουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 7 1:1)
  • ἦν δέ ποτε καὶ περὶ Μακεδονίαν νόμοσ τὸν μηθένα ἀπεκταγκότα πολέμιον ἄνδρα περιεζῶσθαι τὴν φορβειάν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 36:1)

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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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