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φρυκτώριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: φρυκτώριον

Structure: φρυκτωρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from fruktwro/s

Sense

  1. a beacon-tower, light-house

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

  • ἦν δὲ καὶ ναύσταθμα πολλαχόθι πειρατικὰ καὶ φρυκτώρια τετειχισμένα, καὶ στόλοι προσέπιπτον οὐ πληρωμάτων μόνον εὐανδρίαισ οὐδὲ τέχναισ κυβερνητῶν οὐδὲ τάχεσι νεῶν καὶ κουφότησιν ἐξησκημένοι πρὸσ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον, ἀλλὰ τοῦ φοβεροῦ μᾶλλον αὐτῶν τὸ ἐπίφθονον ἐλύπει καὶ ὑπερήφανον, στυλίσι χρυσαῖσ καὶ παραπετάσμασιν ἁλουργοῖσ καὶ πλάταισ ἐπαργύροισ, ὥσπερ ἐντρυφώντων τῷ κακουργεῖν καὶ καλλωπιζομένων. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 24 3:1)
  • σαίνει μ’ ἔννυχοσ φρυκτωρία. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode3)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐσ δόλον τιν’ ἥδ’ ἄγει φρυκτωρία, μαθόντεσ ἐχθρῶν μηχανὰσ κατασκόπου βουλευσόμεσθα· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:25)

Synonyms

  1. a beacon-tower

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

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