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κυβεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυβεία

Structure: κυβει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: kubeu/w

Sense

  1. dice-playing, dicing, sleight of hand, trickery

Declension

First 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

  • "καὶ ταύτην τὴν κυβείαν ἔπαιζον μὲν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Ῥοδίων τινέσ, ἐπιφανέστατα δὲ καὶ πλειστάκισ αὐτὸσ ὁ Ἡγησίλοχοσ ὁ προστατεῖν τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀξιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 63 2:3)
  • τοὺσ δ’ εὐχομένουσ χρυσίον ἢ ἀργύριον ἢ τυραννίδα ἢ ἄλλο τι τῶν τοιούτων οὐδὲν διάφορον ἐνόμιζεν εὔχεσθαι ἢ εἰ κυβείαν ἢ μάχην ἢ ἄλλο τι εὔχοιντο τῶν φανερῶσ ἀδήλων ὅπωσ ἀποβήσοιτο. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 3 3:2)

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

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