Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κόμπασμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόμπασμα κόμπασματος

Structure: κομπασματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. boasts, braggart words

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ παρέλαβον τὴν τέχνην παρὰ σοῦ τὸ πρῶτον εὐθὺσ οἰδοῦσαν ὑπὸ κομπασμάτων καὶ ῥημάτων ἐπαχθῶν, ἴσχνανα μὲν πρώτιστον αὐτὴν καὶ τὸ βάροσ ἀφεῖλον ἐπυλλίοισ καὶ περιπάτοισ καὶ τευτλίοισι λευκοῖσ, χυλὸν διδοὺσ στωμυλμάτων ἀπὸ βιβλίων ἀπηθῶν· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Epirrheme 1:2)
  • ἀλλὰ τὴν Αὄρνον γὰρ πέτρην, ἥντινα Ἀλέξανδροσ βίῃ ἐχειρώσατο, ὅτι Ἠρακλέησ οὐ δυνατὸσ ἐγένετο ἐξελεῖν, μακεδονικὸν δοκέει μοι κόμπασμα, κατάπερ ὦν καὶ τὸν Παραπάμοσον Καύκασον ἐκάλεον Μακεδόνεσ, οὐδέν τι προσήκοντα τοῦτον τῷ Καυκάσῳ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 5 10:1)
  • πέπτωκεν ἀνδρῶν ὀβρίμων κομπάσματα· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἦλθεν αὐτῷ Ζηνὸσ ἄγρυπνον βέλοσ, καταιβάτησ κεραυνὸσ ἐκπνέων φλόγα, ὃσ αὐτὸν ἐξέπληξε τῶν ὑψηγόρων κομπασμάτων. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests 3:11)

Synonyms

  1. boasts

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

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