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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

  • εἶτ̓ ἐπὶ τέλει τοῦ φροιμίου ὑπισχνεῖτο διαρρήδην καὶ σαφῶσ, ἐπὶ μεῖζον μὲν αἴρειν τὰ ἡμέτερα, τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ δὲ καταπολεμήσειν καὶ αὐτόσ, ὡσ ἂν δύνηται· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 14 1:4)
  • ἐν ἀρχῇ μὲν γὰρ εὐθὺσ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τοῦ φροιμίου περιόδῳ συνηρώτησε τοὺσ ἀναγινώσκοντασ λόγον πάνσοφον δεῖξαι σπεύδων, ὡσ μόνῳ ἂν τῷ σοφῷ πρέποι ἱστορίαν συγγράφειν. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 172)
  • ἀνίστω, κἀπολακτίσασ’ ὕπνον, ἰδώμεθ’ εἴ τι τοῦδε φροιμίου ματᾷ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 10:9)

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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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