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κήλων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήλων κήλωνος

Structure: κηλων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a swipe or swing-beam

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

  • κήλων μὲν πεποίηται ἀπὸ τῶν ὀχευτῶν ὄνων· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 399)
  • Ἡρόδοτοσ τοῦτ̓ ἐκεῖνο ἥκειν οἱ νομίσασ τὸν καιρόν, οὗ μάλιστα ἐγλίχετο, πλήθουσαν τηρήσασ τὴν πανήγυριν, ἁπανταχόθεν ἤδη τῶν ἀρίστων συνειλεγμένων, παρελθὼν ἐσ τὸν ὀπισθόδομον οὐ θεατήν, ἀλλ̓ ἀγωνιστὴν παρεῖχεν ἑαυτὸν Ὀλυμπίων ᾅδων τὰσ ἱστορίασ καὶ κηλῶν τοὺσ παρόντασ, ἄχρι τοῦ καὶ Μούσασ κληθῆναι τὰσ βίβλουσ αὐτοῦ, ἐννέα καὶ αὐτὰσ οὔσασ. (Lucian, Herodotus 3:1)
  • καὶ λόγοσ κατεῖχεν, ὡσ ἀνὴρ Ἕλλην εἰσ ἔκπληξιν ὑπερφυὴσ πάντα κηλῶν καὶ χειρούμενοσ ἔρωτα δεινὸν ἐμβέβληκε τοῖσ νέοισ, ὑφ’ οὗ τῶν ἄλλων ἡδονῶν καὶ διατριβῶν ἐκπεσόντεσ ἐνθουσιῶσι περὶ φιλοσοφίαν. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 22 3:1)
  • ἔτι τοίνυν παιδιᾶσ καὶ μουσικῆσ ἐφ’ ὅσον αὐτοῦ τὰ θρέμματα φύσει μετείληφεν, οὐκ ἄλλοσ κρείττων παραμυθεῖσθαι καὶ κηλῶν πραύ̈νειν, μετά τε ὀργάνων καὶ ψιλῷ τῷ στόματι τὴν τῆσ αὑτοῦ ποίμνησ ἄριστα μεταχειριζόμενοσ μουσικήν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 67:4)

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

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