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ἱμάσθλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱμάσθλη

Structure: ἱμασθλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the thong, a whip

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

  • αὐτὴ δ’ ἡνί’ ἔδεκτο καὶ εὐποίητον ἱμάσθλην δεξιτερῇ, ἔλαεν δὲ δι’ ἄστεοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:35)
  • αὐτομάτοισ δὲ πόδεσσι θοῆσ ἐπεβήσατ’ ἀπήνησ, καί ῥ’ ἑτέρῃ μὲν χειρὶ λάβ’ ἡνία, τῇ δ’ ἄρ’ ἱμάσθλην δαιδαλέην, οὐρῆασ ἐλαυνέμεν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 19:25)
  • οἵ, σέθεν εἰσορόωντεσ ἀεὶ νικῶσαν ἱμάσθλην, μέμφονται σφετέρην αἰὲν ἀτασθαλίην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 355 1:1)
  • ἡ δὲ μάλ’ ἡνιόχευεν, ὅπωσ ἅμ’ ἑποίατο πεζοὶ ἀμφίπολοί τ’ Ὀδυσεύσ τε, νόῳ δ’ ἐπέβαλλεν ἱμάσθλην. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 6 27:4)
  • ἡ δ’, ὥσ τ’ ἐν πεδίῳ τετράοροι ἄρσενεσ ἵπποι, πάντεσ ἅμ’ ὁρμηθέντεσ ὑπὸ πληγῇσιν ἱμάσθλησ, ὑψόσ’ ἀειρόμενοι ῥίμφα πρήσσουσι κέλευθον, ὣσ ἄρα τῆσ πρύμνη μὲν ἀείρετο, κῦμα δ’ ὄπισθε πορφύρεον μέγα θῦε πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσησ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 11:6)

Synonyms

  1. the thong

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

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