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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

  • πρῶτον μὲν τοίνυν τῆσ ἐπιφατνιδίασ φορβειᾶσ ἐπίστασθαι αὐτὸν δεῖ μήποτε τὸ ἅμμα ποιεῖσθαι ἔνθαπερ ἡ κορυφαία περιτίθεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 2:2)
  • τὰ δ’ ἁρ́ματα ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ βόεσ ἕλκουσιν, οἱ δὲ ἵπποι ἀπὸ φορβειᾶσ ἄγονται τοῦ μὴ παρεμπίπρασθαι τὰ σκέλη, μηδὲ τὸ πρόθυμον αὐτῶν τὸ ὑπὸ τοῖσ ἁρ́μασιν ἀμβλύνεσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 104:12)

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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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