Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κυνηγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνηγία κυνηγίας

Structure: κυνηγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. hunt, chase, hunting

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

  • κατὰ δὲ συστήματα ταύταισ χρώμενοι ταῖσ κυνηγίαισ σαρκοφαγοῦσι τὰ ληφθέντα, καὶ σπανίωσ μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀλκιμωτάτων ζῴων αὐτοὶ διαφθείρονται, τὰ δὲ πολλὰ δόλῳ τὴν ἐκ βίασ ὑπεροχὴν χειροῦνται. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 25 3:1)
  • τὴν δ’ αἰτίαν ἀποδιδόασι τῆσ ἀτυχίασ οἱ μὲν ὅτι κατὰ τὸ τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἱερὸν διὰ τῶν ἀνατιθεμένων ἀκροθινίων ἐκ τῶν κυνηγίων προῃρεῖτο τὸν γάμον κατεργάσασθαι τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, οἱ δ’ ὅτι τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ αὑτὸν πρωτεύειν ταῖσ κυνηγίαισ ἀπεφήνατο. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 81 4:1)
  • τινὲσ μὲν γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ κυνηγίαισ εἰσὶ τολμηροὶ πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν θηρίων συγκαταστάσεισ, οἱ δ’ αὐτοὶ πρὸσ ὅπλα καὶ πολεμίουσ ἀγεννεῖσ, καὶ τῆσ γε πολεμικῆσ χρείασ τῆσ κατ’ ἄνδρα μὲν καὶ κατ’ ἰδίαν εὐχερεῖσ καὶ πρακτικοί, κοινῇ δὲ καὶ μετὰ πολεμικῆσ ἐπ’ ἴσον συντάξεωσ ἄπρακτοι. (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 8 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. hunt

Related

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

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