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καυτήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: καυτήριον καυτήριου

Structure: καυτηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kai/w

Sense

  1. a branding iron

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

  • ὡρ́α τοίνυν μετασκευάσαντασ ἡμᾶσ τὴν σκηνὴν ἐμὲ μὲν σιωπᾶν καὶ ἀνέχεσθαι τεμνόμενον καὶ καιόμενον, εἰ δέοι, ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ, σὲ δὲ ἐπιπάττειν τῶν φαρμάκων καὶ τὴν σμίλην ἅμα πρόχειρον ἔχοντα καὶ τὸ καυτήριον διάπυρον· (Lucian, Apologia 7:2)
  • ὁ δὲ ἔλεγχοσ, Παρρησιάδη, τοιόσδε ἔστω, οἱο͂σ ὁ τῶν ἀετῶν πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον εἶναι λέγεται, οὐ μὰ Δί’ ὥστε κἀκείνουσ ἀντιβλέπειν τῷ φωτὶ καὶ πρὸσ ἐκεῖνο δοκιμάζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ προθεὶσ χρυσίον καὶ δόξαν καὶ ἡδονὴν ὃν μὲν ἂν αὐτῶν ἴδῃσ ὑπερορῶντα καὶ μηδαμῶσ ἑλκόμενον πρὸσ τὴν ὄψιν, οὗτοσ ἔστω ὁ τῷ θαλλῷ στεφόμενοσ, ὃν δ’ ἂν ἀτενὲσ ἀποβλέποντα καὶ τὴν χεῖρα ὀρέγοντα ἐπὶ τὸ χρυσίον, ἀπάγειν ἐπὶ τὸ καυτήριον τοῦτον ἀποκείρασ ^ πρότερον τὸν πώγωνα ὡσ ἔδοξεν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 46:5)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ἀπ’ ἐκείνου διαδεξαμένουσ τό τε καυτήριον φυλάξαι καὶ τοὔνομα τῷ γένει τῶν ἵππων, ἔθοσ δὲ ποιῆσαι θήλειαν μὴ ἐξαλλοτριοῦν, ἵνα μένοι παρὰ μόνοισ τὸ γνήσιον γένοσ, ἐνδόξου γενομένησ ἐνθένδε ἱππείασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 18:11)

Synonyms

  1. a branding iron

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

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