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ἡμίονος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίονος ἡμίονου

Structure: ἡμιον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. mule, half ass
  2. (figuratively, ἡμίονος βασιλεύς) half-Mede, half-Persian
  3. (ἡμίονος ἀγροτέρα) wild ass, onager
  4. , 6.36

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

  • καὶ συνήντησεν Ἀβεσσαλὼμ ἐνώπιον τῶν παίδων Δαυίδ, καὶ Ἀβεσσαλὼμ ἦν ἐπιβεβηκὼσ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἡμιόνου αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ὁ ἡμίονοσ ὑπὸ τὸ δάσοσ τῆσ δρυὸσ τῆσ μεγάλησ, καὶ περιεπλάκη ἡ κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ δρυί̈, καὶ ἐκρεμάσθη ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ ὁ ἡμίονοσ ὑποκάτω αὐτοῦ παρῆλθε. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 18:9)
  • ἦν μὲν γὰρ ἐν ἐφικτῷ τῆσ διώξεωσ ὁ ὑπεκφέρων τὸν ἄνδρα ἵπποσ, ἡμιόνου δὲ τῶν τὸ χρυσίον κομιζόντων μεταξὺ τοῦ βασιλέωσ εἴτ’ ἀπὸ ταὐτομάτου παρεισπεσόντοσ, εἴτε τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐπίτηδεσ ἐμβαλόντοσ αὑτόν εἰσ τοὺσ διώκοντασ, ἁρπάζοντεσ καὶ συλλέγοντεσ τὸ χρυσίον καὶ διαμαχόμενοι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ καθυστέρησαν, καὶ οὐ τοῦτο μόνον αὐτῶν ἀπέλαυσε τῆσ πλεονεξίασ Λούκουλλοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀπορρήτων τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὄντα Καλλίστρατον ὁ μὲν ἄγειν ἐκέλευσεν, οἱ δ’ ἄγοντεσ αἰσθόμενοι πεντακοσίουσ χρυσοῦσ ὑπεζωσμένον ἀπέκτειναν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 17 6:1)
  • διὸ ἡμίονοσ οὐκ ἐξ ἡμιόνου· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 130:2)
  • οἱ δὲ καὶ ὅτι ἐν ἡμιόνου ὁπλῇ ἐκόμισε καὶ τοῦτο ἀνέγραψαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 27 1:3)
  • ὣσ ἔφατ’, ὄρνυτο δ’ αὐτίκ’ ἀνὴρ ἠύ̈σ τε μέγασ τε εἰδὼσ πυγμαχίησ υἱὸσ Πανοπῆοσ Ἐπειόσ, ἅψατο δ’ ἡμιόνου ταλαεργοῦ φώνησέν τε· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 62:1)

Synonyms

  1. wild ass

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