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κυνόσουρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνόσουρα

Structure: κυνοσουρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. dog's-tail, the Cynosure, Ursa Minor

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

  • ‐ Βάκιδοσ χρησμὸσ περὶ τῆσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων νίκησ ἀλλ’ ὅταν Ἀρτέμιδοσ χρυσαόρου ἱερὸν ἀκτὴν νηυσὶ γεφυρώσωσι καὶ εἰναλίην Κυνόσουραν ἐλπίδι μαινομένῃ, λιπαρὰσ πέρσαντεσ Ἀθήνασ, δῖα Δίκη σβέσσει κρατερὸν Κόρον,Ὕβριοσ υἱόν, δεινὸν μαιμώωντα, δοκεῦντ’ ἀνὰ πάντα πιθέσθαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 981)
  • τοῦτο δέ, ἐπειδὴ ἐγίνοντο μέσαι νύκτεσ, ἀνῆγον μὲν τὸ ἀπ’ ἑσπέρησ κέρασ κυκλούμενοι πρὸσ τὴν Σαλαμῖνα, ἀνῆγον δὲ οἱ ἀμφὶ τὴν Κέον τε καὶ τὴν Κυνόσουραν τεταγμένοι, κατεῖχόν τε μέχρι Μουνυχίησ πάντα τὸν πορθμὸν τῇσι νηυσί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 76 2:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅταν Ἀρτέμιδοσ χρυσαόρου ἱερὸν ἀκτήν νηυσὶ γεφυρώσωσι καὶ εἰναλίην Κυνόσουραν ἐλπίδι μαινομένῃ, λιπαρὰσ πέρσαντεσ Ἀθήνασ, δῖα δίκη σβέσσει κρατερὸν κόρον, ὕβριοσ υἱόν, δεινὸν μαιμώοντα, δοκεῦντ’ ἀνὰ πάντα πίεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 77 2:2)

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

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