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ἰχνεύμων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰχνεύμων ἰχνεύμονος

Structure: ἰχνευμων (Stem)

Etym.: i)xneu/w

Sense

  1. the tracker, which hunts out, the ichneumon, Pharaoh's rat

Declension

Third 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

  • τοῖσ δὲ περὶ Ἡφαιστίωνα διὰ πράξεισ τινὰσ ἀποῦσιν ἔγραψεν ὅτι παιζόντων αὐτῶν πρὸσ ἰχνεύμονα τῷ Περδίκκου δορατίῳ περιπεσὼν Κρατερὸσ τοὺσ μηροὺσ ἐτρώθη. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 41 3:1)
  • ὅταν γὰρ αἴσθηται, τοῦ κροκόδειλον καθεύδοντοσ, ἐπιβουλεύοντα τὸν ἰχνεύμονα πηλούμενον καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ ἀθλητὴν κονιόμενον ἐπεγείρει φθεγγόμενοσ καὶ κολάπτων ὁ δ’ οὕτωσ ἐξημεροῦται πρὸσ αὐτόν, ὥστε τοῦ στόματοσ διαχανὼν ἐντὸσ παρίησι, καὶ χαίρει τὰ λεπτὰ τῶν ἐνισχομένων τοῖσ ὀδοῦσι σαρκῶν ἐκλέγοντοσ ἀτρέμα τῷ ῥάμφει καὶ διασκαλεύοντοσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 31 3:1)
  • βοῦν μὲν οὖν καὶ πρόβατον καὶ ἰχνεύμονα δῆλον ὅτι χρείασ ἕνεκα καὶ ὠφελείασ ἐτίμησαν ὡσ Λήμνιοι κορύδουσ, τὰ τῶν ἀττελάβων εὑρίσκοντασ ᾠὰ καὶ κόπτοντασ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 74 1:1)
  • καὶ τὸν μὲν αἴλουρον πρόσ τε τὰσ ἀσπίδασ θανάσιμα δακνούσασ εὔθετον ὑπάρχειν καὶ τἄλλα δάκετα τῶν ἑρπετῶν, τὸν δ’ ἰχνεύμονα τῶν κροκοδείλων παρατηροῦντα τοὺσ γόνουσ τὰ καταληφθέντα τῶν ᾠῶν συντρίβειν, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐπιμελῶσ καὶ φιλοτίμωσ ἐνεργεῖν μηδὲν ὠφελούμενον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 87 4:1)

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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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