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ἱστίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱστίον ἱστίου

Structure: ἱστι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: i(sto/s

Sense

  1. any web, a sail, sail, the sails

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

  • νότου δὲ κόλπ[ωσαν πνοᾷ ἱστίον, ἁρπαλέωσ τ’ ἄ‐ ελπτον ἐξίκοντο χέρσον· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 26:1)
  • διαμηχανήσομαί θ’ ὅπωσ ἂν ἱστίον σαπρὸν λάβῃσ. (Aristotle, Agon, antipnigos4)
  • ὥστε λύε τὰ ἀπόγεια, τὴν ἀποβάθραν ἀνελώμεθα, τὸ ἀγκύριον ἀνεσπάσθω, πέτασον τὸ ἱστίον, εὔθυνε, ὦ πορθμεῦ, τὸ πηδάλιον· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 21:3)
  • τὴν δὲ μητέρα διολλυμένην ἔσωσε περιφανῶσ, καὶ τὸν πάππον ἀκλεῶσ δουλεύοντα καὶ ἀτίμωσ εἰσ τὸν Αἰνείου θρόνον ἐκάθισε, καὶ πολλὰ μὲν ἑκὼν εὐεργέτησεν, ἔβλαψε δὲ αὐτὸν οὐδὲ ἄκων, τὴν δὲ Θησέωσ λήθην καὶ ἀμέλειαν τῆσ περὶ τὸ ἱστίον ἐντολῆσ μόλισ ἂν οἶμαι μακρᾷ τινι παραιτήσει καὶ ἐν ῥᾳθύμοισ δικασταῖσ αἰτίαν ἀποφυγεῖν πατροκτονίασ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 5 1:2)
  • ὁ δὲ ἱστὸσ ἦν αὐτῆσ ἑβδομήκοντα πηχῶν, βύσσινον ἔχων ἱστίον ἁλουργεῖ παρασείῳ κεκοσμημένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3744)

Synonyms

  1. any web

Related

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

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