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ἴλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἴλη

Structure: ἰλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: i)/llw, ei)/lw

Sense

  1. a crowd, band, troop, companies
  2. a troop of horse

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἴλη ί̓λᾱ ί̓λαι
Genitive ί̓λης ί̓λαιν ἰλῶν
Dative ί̓λῃ ί̓λαιν ί̓λαις
Accusative ί̓λην ί̓λᾱ ί̓λᾱς
Vocative ί̓λη ί̓λᾱ ί̓λαι

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

  • αἱ δὲ δύο ἶλαι ἐπιλαρχία αὐτοῖσ ὠνομάζετο, καὶ ἦν ὀκτὼ καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατὸν ἱππέων· (Arrian, chapter 18 3:2)
  • "ἐστεφάνωντο δὲ αἱ μὲν ἡγούμεναι ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι χρυσοῖσ πιτυίνοισ στεφάνοισ, ἠκολούθουν δ’ αὐταῖσ Σάτυροι ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι, πανοπλίασ οἱ μὲν χρυσᾶσ, οἱ δὲ ἀργυρᾶσ, οἱ δὲ χαλκᾶσ ἔχοντεσ, μετὰ δὲ τούτουσ ἐπορεύοντο ὄνων ἶλαι πέντε, ἐφ’ ὧν ἦσαν Σιληνοὶ καὶ Σάτυροι ἐστεφανωμένοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 316)
  • ἔνθα μιν εὔφρονεσ ἶλαι σὺν καλάμοιο βοᾷ θεὸν δέκονται, καὶ σθένει γυίων ἐρίζοντι θρασεῖ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 5 14:1)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἐλέφαντεσ οὐ δυνάμενοι πρὸσ τὸν ὄχθον ἀναβαίνειν οὐδὲν αὐτοὺσ ἠδίκουν, οὐδὲ αἱ τῶν ἱππέων ἶλαι, οἱ δὲ τοξόται καὶ σφενδονῆται βάλλοντεσ πανταχόθεν κατετίτρωσκόν τε καὶ διέφθειρον ἐξ αὐτῶν συχνούσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 3 6:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ τὸ πλῆθοσ εἰσ εἴκοσι λόχουσ συντεταγμένον ἦν, προσέκειντο δ’ αὐτοῖσ δύο ἶλαι τεκτόνων καὶ χαλκοτύπων καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι πολεμικῶν ἔργων ἦσαν χειροτέχναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 59 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a crowd

  2. a troop of horse

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

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