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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

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

  • τὸ μὲν δεξιὸν αὐτῷ εἶχον τῶν ἱππέων οἱ ἑταῖροι, ὧν προετέτακτο ἡ ἴλη ἡ βασιλική, ἧσ Κλεῖτοσ ὁ Δρωπίδου ἰλάρχησ ἦν, ἐπὶ δὲ ταύτῃ ἡ Γλαυκίου ἴλη, ἐχομένη δ̓ αὐτῆσ ἡ Ἀρίστωνοσ, ἐπὶ δὲ ἡ Σωπόλιδοσ τοῦ Ἑρμοδώρου, ἐπὶ δὲ ἡ Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ Ἀντιόχου, ἐπὶ ταύτῃ δὲ ἡ Δημητρίου τοῦ Ἀλθαιμένουσ, ταύτησ δὲ ἐχομένη ἡ Μελεάγρου, τελευταία δὲ τῶν βασιλικῶν ἰλῶν ἧσ Ἡγέλοχοσ ὁ Ἱπποστράτου ἰλάρχησ ἦν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 11 8:1)
  • πλεῖστον μὲν γὰρ ἱππέων τάττεται βάθοσ ἐπ’ ὀκτὼ πρὸσ ἀληθινὴν χρείαν, καὶ μεταξὺ τῶν ἰλῶν ἑκάστησ ἴσον ὑπάρχειν δεῖ διάστημα τοῖσ μετώποισ πρὸσ τὸ ταῖσ ἐπιστροφαῖσ δύνασθαι καὶ τοῖσ περισπασμοῖσ εὐχρηστεῖν. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 18 3:1)

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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