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κοττάβιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοττάβιον κοττάβιου

Structure: κοτταβι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the prize of the game

Declension

Second 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

  • ἕτερον δ’ ἐστὶν εἶδοσ παιδιᾶσ τῆσ ἐν λεκάνῃ, αὕτη δ’ ὕδατοσ πληροῦται, ἐπινεῖ δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ ὀξύβαφα κενά, ἐφ’ ἃ βάλλοντεσ τὰσ λατάγασ ἐκ καρχησίων ἐπειρῶντο καταδύειν ἀνῃρεῖτο δὲ τὰ κοττάβια ὁ πλείω καταδύσασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 61)
  • καὶ τοὺσ ὑπ’ ἄλλων μέλλοντασ, ἂν μὴ αὐτοί, ὡσ οὐκέτι ἐνδεχόμενον βουλεύσασθαι, ὥσπερ λέγεται Αἰνεσίδημοσ Γέλωνι πέμψαι κοττάβια ἀνδραποδισαμένῳ < >, ὅτι ἔφθασεν, ὡσ καὶ αὐτὸσ μέλλων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 12 30:1)

Synonyms

  1. the prize of the game

Related

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

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