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κόλλοψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλλοψ κόλλοπος

Structure: κολλοπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the peg or screw, the strings of your passion

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

  • κρανίον ἐλάφου γυμνὸν τῶν σαρκῶν, καὶ τὰ μὲν κέρατα πήχεισ ὥσπερ ἦσαν, ζυγώσασ δὲ αὐτὰ καὶ ἐνάψασ τὰ νεῦρα, οὐδὲ κόλλοπι περιστρέψασ, ἐμελῴδει ἄμουσόν τι καὶ ἀπῳδόν, ἄλλο μὲν αὐτὸσ βοῶν, ἄλλο δὲ ἡ λύρα ὑπήχει, ὥστε οὐδὲ κατέχειν τὸν γέλωτα ἐδυνάμεθα ἐπὶ τῷ ἐρωτικῷ ἐκείνῳ ᾅσματι· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, doris and galataea, chapter 45)
  • ἕλξεισ ἐκ λιμένοσ πολλὴν δρόσον οὐδὲ γὰρ αἰδὼσ οὐδ’ ἔλεοσ δαπάνῳ κόλλοπι συντρέφεται, ἐχθαίρω τὸ ποίημα τὸ κυκλικόν, οὐδὲ κελεύθῳ χαίρω τίσ πολλοὺσ ὧδε καὶ ὧδε φέρει· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 42 1:1)
  • ἀτὰρ πολύμητισ Ὀδυσσεύσ, αὐτίκ’ ἐπεὶ μέγα τόξον ἐβάστασε καὶ ἴδε πάντη, ὡσ ὅτ’ ἀνὴρ φόρμιγγοσ ἐπιστάμενοσ καὶ ἀοιδῆσ ῥηϊδίωσ ἐτάνυσσε νέῳ περὶ κόλλοπι χορδήν, ἅψασ ἀμφοτέρωθεν ἐϋστρεφὲσ ἔντερον οἰόσ, ὣσ ἄρ’ ἄτερ σπουδῆσ τάνυσεν μέγα τόξον Ὀδυσσεύσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 56:2)

Similar forms

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

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