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λατομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λατομία

Structure: λατομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a quarry, a site for mining stone.

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

  • "τῶν δ’ ἐν ταῖσ λατομίαισ ὡσ χρόνοσ ἱκανὸσ διῆλθεν ταλαιπωρούντων, ἀξιωθεὶσ ὁ βασιλεύσ, ἵνα [πρὸσ] κατάλυσιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ σκέπην ἀπομερίσῃ, τὴν τότε τῶν ποιμένων ἐρημωθεῖσαν πόλιν Αὐάριν συνεχώρησεν· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 263:1)
  • τὸν ἐκ τῶν λατομιῶν εὖ ἐποίησασ ἀφείσ, ἐλαφρὰ δὲ ἡ δέησισ καὶ περὶ τῶν οἰκετῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ Ἡγησίππου τοῦ Ἀρίστωνοσ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 32:4)
  • τῶν δ’ Ἀθηναίων οἱ μὲν πλεῖστοι διεφθάρησαν ἐν ταῖσ λατομίαισ ὑπὸ νόσου καὶ διαίτησ πονηρᾶσ, εἰσ ἡμέραν ἑκάστην κοτύλασ δύο κριθῶν λαμβάνοντεσ καὶ μίαν ὕδατοσ, οὐκ ὀλίγοι δ’ ἐπράθησαν διακλαπέντεσ ἢ καὶ διαλαθόντεσ ὡσ οἰκέται. (Plutarch, , chapter 29 1:1)
  • ἐχθὲσ ἐπὶ ξενίαν κληθείσ, ὅτε καιρὸσ ὕπνου μοι, τύλῃ ἐπεκλίνθην Γοργόνοσ ἢ Νιόβησ, ἣν οὐδεὶσ ὕφηνεν, ἀπέπρισε δ’, ἢ πελεκήσασ ἐκ τῶν λατομιῶν ἤγαγεν εἰσ τὰ Πρόκλου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 141)
  • ἐκ ποίων ἔταμεσ, Διονύσιε, τὰ ξύλα ταῦτα λατομιῶν; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2461)

Related

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

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