Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἰγνύς

; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰγνύς ἰγνύος

Etym.: = i)gnu/a

Sense

Examples

  • ἰσχιάδοσ μὲν ἀπὸ μηροῦκατόπιν, ἢ ἰγνύοσ, ἢ κνήμησ, ἡ ἀρχή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 316)
  • τρεψάμενοι δὲ κἀκείνουσ εἰσ φυγὴν ἐπίπονόν τε καὶ βραδεῖαν τὴν ἀποχώρησιν ποιουμένουσ πρὸσ ὀχθώδη χωρία ἐδίωκον, τένοντάσ τε ὑποκόπτοντεσ ποδῶν καὶ τὰσ ἰγνῦσ πλαγίοισ τοῖσ ξίφεσι διαιροῦντεσ, ἑώσ ἐπὶ τὸν χάρακα αὐτῶν ἀφίκοντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 33 4:1)

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

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