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κλύσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλύσμα κλύσματος

Structure: κλυσματ (Stem)

Etym.: klu/zw

Sense

  1. a liquid used for washing out, a clyster, drench
  2. a place washed by the waves, the sea-beach

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

  • πηγὴν ἐπώνυμόν σοι ἀναδοθῆναι ἐάσω ἐνταῦθα πατάξασ τῇ τριαίνῃ τὴν πέτραν πλησίον τοῦ κλύσματοσ, καὶ σὺ εὐδαίμων ἔσῃ καὶ μόνη τῶν ἀδελφῶν οὐχ ὑδροφορήσεισ ἀποθανοῦσα. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 3 1:1)
  • τοιοῦτον δέ τι ἐγεγένητο ἀναπλεύσασ ὁ νεανίσκοσ εἰσ Αἴγυπτον ἄχρι τοῦ Κλύσματοσ, πλοίου ἀναγομένου ἐπείσθη καὶ αὐτὸσ εἰσ Ἰνδίαν πλεῦσαι, κἀπειδήπερ ἐβράδυνεν, οἱ δυστυχεῖσ ἐκεῖνοι οἰκέται αὐτοῦ, οἰηθέντεσ ἢ ἐν τῷ Νείλῳ πλέοντα διεφθάρθαι τὸν νεανίσκον ἢ καὶ ὑπὸ λῃστῶν ‐ πολλοὶ δὲ ἦσαν τότε ‐ ἀνῃρῆσθαι, ἐπανῆλθον ἀπαγγέλλοντεσ αὐτοῦ τὸν ἀφανισμόν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 44:4)
  • καὶ περὶ τροπὰσ χειμερινὰσ διαβὰσ εἰσ Σικελίαν, καὶ βουλόμενοσ εὐθὺσ ἀποκόψαι Τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ἡγεμόνων ἅπασαν ἐλπίδα μελλήσεωσ καὶ διατριβῆσ, ἐπὶ τοῦ κλύσματοσ ἔπηξε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σκηνήν καὶ γενομένου πνεύματοσ ἐμβὰσ ἀνήχθη μετὰ τρισχιλίων πεζῶν καὶ ἱππέων ὀλίγων, ἀποβιβάσασ δὲ τούτουσ λαθών ἀνήχθη πάλιν, ὑπὲρ τῆσ μείζονοσ ὀρρωδῶν δυνάμεωσ· (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 52 1:2)
  • Ἢν δὲ μὴ δοκέῃ τάμνειν φλέβα, ψύξιοσ πολλῆσ καὶ νάρκησ καὶ ἀναισθήσιοσ ἀμφισχούσησ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὑποκλύζειν ἐσ κένωσιν τοῦ πλήθεοσ τῶν ἐν τοῖσι ἐντέροισι ̔τὰ πολλὰ γὰρ ὑπ’ ἀδηφαγίησ καὶ οἰνοφλυγίησ παραπλῆγεσ γίγνονταἰ, καὶ εἰσ τὴν ἀντίσπασιν τῶν τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀμφεχόν των χυμῶν· ἔστω δὲ τὸ κλύσμα δριμὺ, καὶ φλεγμάτων καὶ χολῆσ ἀγωγὸν, ὡσ μὴ νίτρον ἔχειν μοῦνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ εὐφόρβιον, ὅσον ὁλκῆσ τριώβολον, ἐσ τόδε ξύνηθεσ πλῆθοσ τοῦ κλύσματοσ, καὶ κολοκυνθίδοσ τὸ ἐντόσ, ἢ κενταυρίου τῆσ κόμησ ἀφεψήματοσ εἰσ ἔλαιον, ἧ ὕδωρ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 160)

Synonyms

  1. a place washed by the waves

Related

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

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