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κένταυρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κένταυρος κενταύρου

Structure: κενταυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Centaur, a member of a savage race dwelling between Mt. Pelion and Mt. Ossa on the Northeastern coast of Thessaly.

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

  • κᾆτ’ ἢν μὲν ἴδωσι κομήτην ἄγριόν τινα τῶν λασίων τούτων, οἱο͂́νπερ τὸν Ξενοφάντου, σκώπτουσαι τὴν μανίαν αὐτοῦ κενταύροισ ᾔκασαν αὑτάσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests37)
  • Θεοδωρίδασ γοῦν ὁ Συρακόσιοσ ἐν Κενταύροισ διθυράμβῳ φησίν πίσσα δὲ ἀπὸ γραβίων ἔσταζεν, οἱο͂ν ἀπὸ λαμπάδων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 57 3:1)
  • Λάρισαν δ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσι λιπὼν Πολύφημοσ ἵκανεν Εἰλατίδησ, ὃσ πρὶν μὲν ἐρισθενέων Λαπιθάων, ὁππότε Κενταύροισ Λαπίθαι ἐπὶ θωρήσσοντο, ὁπλότεροσ πολέμιζε· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 1:13)
  • πολλοὶ μὲν γὰρ λέουσι τῶν ἀνδρῶν εἴξασι καὶ Κενταύροισ καὶ τοιούτοισιν ἑτέροισ, πάμπολλοι δὲ Σατύροισ καὶ τοῖσ ἀσθενέσι καὶ πολυτρόποισ θηρίοισ· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 205:6)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῶν τοιούτων συνουσιῶν ἢ γάμων ὠφέλιμον μὲν ἢ χρήσιμον οὐδὲν ἂν γένοιτο, θαυμαστὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλογα, προσεοικότα τοῖσ Κενταύροισ, δημαγωγῶν τινων πολιτεύματα καὶ ξυγγράμματα σοφιστῶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 153:2)

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