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κόναβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόναβος

Sense

  1. a ringing, clashing, din

Examples

  • κόναβοσ ἐν πύλαισ χαλκοδέτων σακέων, παῖ Διόσ, ὅθεν πολεμόκραντον ἁγνὸν τέλοσ ἐν μάχᾳ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • ἄφαρ δὲ κακὸσ κόναβοσ κατὰ νῆασ ὀρώρει ἀνδρῶν τ’ ὀλλυμένων νηῶν θ’ ἅμα ἀγνυμενάων· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 12:20)

Synonyms

  1. a ringing

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

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