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ἰνίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰνίον

Structure: ἰνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: i)/s

Sense

  1. the muscle at the back of the neck, the nape of the neck

Declension

Second 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

  • "οὔτε γάρ ἐκεῖνοι τὸν νῶτον ὑμῶν οὔτε ὑμεῖσ ἐκείνων τὸ ἰνίον ἰδεῖν ἐδυνήθητε. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 33 3:2)
  • ταῦτα εἰπὼν πρῶτοσ ἐμβάλλει τοῖσ πολεμίοισ δρόμῳ, συνεπισπασάμενοσ τοὺσ περὶ ἑαυτὸν ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι στρατιώτασ, διακόψασ δὲ τοὺσ πρώτουσ καὶ πρόσω χωρῶν φόνῳ πολλῷ καὶ βιαζόμενοσ ἀνακόπτεται ξίφει πληγεὶσ διὰ τοῦ στόματοσ, ὥστε καὶ τὴν αἰχμὴν ὑπὲρ τὸ ἰνίον ἀνασχεῖν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 44 6:2)
  • ἔνδοθι δ’ αἰεὶ τεῖρ’ ὀδύνη σμύχουσα διὰ χροόσ, ἀμφί τ’ ἀραιὰσ ἶνασ καὶ κεφαλῆσ ὑπὸ νείατον ἰνίον ἄχρισ, ἔνθ’ ἀλεγεινότατον δύνει ἄχοσ, ὁππότ’ ἀνίασ ἀκάματοι πραπίδεσσιν ἐνισκίμψωσιν Ἔρωτεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 13:22)
  • τούτων τῶν λόγων μεμνημένοσ ἐξώρμησε καὶ συνεπεσπάσατο πολλοὺσ καὶ προσέβαλε κατὰ μέσουσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, γενομένου δὲ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ εὐθὺσ ἐν ξίφεσι καὶ πολλῶν φονευομένων, βιαζόμενον πρόσω καὶ διακόπτοντα τοὺσ πρώτουσ ὑποστάσ τισ ὠθεῖ διὰ τοῦ στόματοσ τὸ ξίφοσ, ὥστε τὴν αἰχμὴν περάσασαν ἀνασχεῖν κατὰ τὸ ἰνίον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 71 2:4)
  • Ἢν δὲ πρόσω προήκῃ χρόνῳ καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐν αἰτίῃ ἴσχῃ, σικύην χρῆ ἐσ τὸ ἰνίον προσβάλλοντα, αἱμάσσειν ἀφειδέωσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 187)

Synonyms

  1. the muscle at the back of the neck

Related

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

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