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φροίμιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: φροίμιον φροίμιου

Structure: φροιμι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for prooi/mion, as frou=dos for pro\ o(dou=.

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

  • ἢν δέ τισ ἢ φροίμιον εἴπῃ πρὸ τοῦ λόγου, ὡσ εὐνουστέρουσ ἀπεργάσαιτο αὐτούσ, ἢ οἶκτον ἢ δείνωσιν ἔξωθεν ἐπάγῃ ^ τῷ πράγματι ‐ οἱᾶ πολλὰ ῥητόρων παῖδεσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ μηχανῶνται ‐ παρελθὼν ὁ κῆρυξ κατεσιώπησεν εὐθύσ, οὐκ ἐῶν ληρεῖν πρὸσ τὴν βουλὴν καὶ περιπέττειν τὸ πρᾶγμα ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ, ὡσ γυμνὰ τὰ γεγενημένα οἱ Ἀρεοπαγῖται βλέποιεν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 19:4)
  • Μενέλαε, φροίμιον μὲν ἄξιον φόβου τόδ’ ἐστίν· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:1)
  • βοᾷ φόνου φροίμιον στενάζων ἄναξ. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • τὸ φροίμιον μὲν τῶν λόγων οὐκ εὐτυχέσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode23)
  • αὐτόσ τ’ ἔγωγε φροίμιον χορεύσομαι. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 4:2)

Related

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

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