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ἡνιοχεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡνιοχεία

Structure: ἡνιοχει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: h(nioxe/w

Sense

  1. chariot-driving

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

  • οὐκοῦν καὶ ἡ ἡνιοχεία σοφία ἐστίν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 16:2)
  • πάμπολλα δ’ ἕτερα τοιαῦτα παραδείγματα ἐν ἡνιοχείαισ τέ ἐστι καὶ ἐν ἑτέροισ, ἐν οἷσιν μαθεῖν δυνατὸν ὅτι παρὰ φύσιν κατασκευάζουσιν οἱ ἀριστερὰ δεξιῶν ἀσθενέστερα κατασκευάζοντεσ. (Plato, Laws, book 7 43:2)
  • οὐκ ἔστι ταῦτ’ οὔτ’ ἐν ἡνιοχείᾳ οὔτ’ ἐν ἄλλῳ ἔργῳ οὐδενί· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 425:3)

Synonyms

  1. chariot-driving

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

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