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ἱκτήρ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱκτήρ ἱκτῆρος

Structure: ἱκτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: = i(ke/ths,

Sense

  1. a suppliant

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐσ τάσδε γὰρ βλέψασ’ ἐπηυξάμην τάδε γραῦσ, αἳ λιποῦσαι δώματ’ Ἀργείασ χθονὸσ ἱκτῆρι θαλλῷ προσπίτνουσ’ ἐμὸν γόνυ, πάθοσ παθοῦσαι δεινόν· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:2)
  • ὅμωσ δ’ ἀνάγκη Ζηνὸσ αἰδεῖσθαι κότον ἱκτῆροσ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ τάχιστα, παῖδεσ, ὑμεῖσ μὲν βάθρων ἵστασθε, τούσδ’ ἄραντεσ ἱκτῆρασ κλάδουσ, ἄλλοσ δὲ Κάδμου λαὸν ὧδ’ ἀθροιζέτω, ὡσ πᾶν ἐμοῦ δράσοντοσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 6:7)

Synonyms

  1. a suppliant

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

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