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ἱπποδρομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱπποδρομία

Structure: ἱπποδρομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a horse-race or chariot-race

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

  • καὶ πάλιν φησίν, ὡσ δὲ ἱπποδρομία ἔληξεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 9:6)
  • ἀνειμένον δὲ καὶ ἀναπεπτωκὸσ εἶναι δοκεῖ τὸ σχῆμα, πολιτικὸσ δ’ ἂν οὐχ οὕτωσ ἐποίησεν, ἀλλὰ συντονώτερον, ὅποι δὴ ἱπποδρομία ἔληξεν, ἢ τοιούτῳ τινὶ τρόπῳ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 9:7)
  • ληξάσησ δὲ τῆσ ἱπποδρομίασ, τὸ δὲ ὀρθοῦν τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν, ὡσ δὲ ἡ ἱπποδρομία ἔληξεν· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 5:4)
  • ὁ δὲ πολιτικὸσ οὐχ οὕτωσ ἂν ἐποίησεν, ἀλλὰ συντονώτερον, ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡ ἱπποδρομία ἔληξεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 5:6)
  • τ’ ἐτύγχανε μὲν οὖσα ἱπποδρομία Ἀνακείων . (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 11 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. a horse-race or chariot-race

Related

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

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