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καταπέλτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταπέλτης καταπέλτου

Structure: καταπελτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. catapult
  2. an instrument of torture

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

  • τῶν δὲ κρίκων εἴχετο τοῦ μὲν ὁ ἁρ́παξ, σιδήριον καμπύλον, τοῦ δὲ καλῴδια πολλά, μηχαναῖσ ἐπισπώμενα τὸν ἁρ́παγα, ὅτε τῆσ πολεμίασ νεὼσ ἐκ καταπέλτου λάβοιτο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 12 10:7)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὰσ πολεμικὰσ χρείασ βάλλουσι λίθουσ πολὺ μείζουσ τῶν ἄλλων οὕτωσ εὐτόνωσ, ὥστε δοκεῖν τὸ βληθὲν ἀπό τινοσ καταπέλτου φέρεσθαι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 18 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. an instrument of torture

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