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κωπεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωπεύς κωπέως

Structure: κωπευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. pieces of wood fit for making oars, oar-spars

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλ’ αὐτίκα μὲν τότε εἰσήγαγον εἰσ στρατιὰν ὑμῶν οὖσαν ἐν Σάμῳ κωπέασ, τῶν τετρακοσίων ἤδη τὰ πράγματα ἐνθάδε κατειληφότων, ὄντοσ μοι Ἀρχελάου ξένου πατρικοῦ καὶ διδόντοσ τέμνεσθαί τε καὶ ἐξάγεσθαι ὁπόσουσ ἐβουλόμην. (Andocides, Speeches, 19:2)
  • τούτουσ τε εἰσήγαγον τοὺσ κωπέασ, καὶ παρόν μοι πέντε δραχμῶν τὴν τιμὴν αὐτῶν δέξασθαι οὐκ ἠθέλησα πράξασθαι πλέον ἢ ὅσου ἐμοὶ κατέστησαν· (Andocides, Speeches, 19:3)
  • εὐθὺσ δὲ παραστάσ μοι Πείσανδροσ "ἄνδρεσ" ἔφη "βουλευταί, ἐγὼ τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον ἐνδεικνύω ὑμῖν σῖτόν τε εἰσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ εἰσαγαγόντα καὶ κωπέασ. (Andocides, Speeches, 23:1)
  • ἢ τὴν μὲν κρανίαν καὶ τὴν βύρσαν πολλοῦ τινοσ ἀξίαν εἶναι, τὰ δὲ νήια καὶ τοὺσ κωπέασ τοῦ μηδενόσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 90:6)

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

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