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λιμήν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμήν λιμένος

Structure: λιμην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a harbour, haven, creek, havens of refuge from
  2. a haven, retreat, refuge, a haven of, a harbour of refuge
  3. a place of resort, receptacle, filled

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

  • ὥσπερ ὁ Ξενοφῶν ἐκεῖνοσ ἐν Κάλπησ λιμένι ὑφ̓ ἁμάξησ βοῦν λαβὼν δἰ ἀπορίαν ἱερείων, ἀλλὰ τῶν Τραπεζουντίων αὐτῶν παρασκευασάντων ἱερεῖον οὐκ ἀγεννέσ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 2 4:1)
  • εἰ δέ τισ ἐλεύθεροσ ἐν ἐλευθέρᾳ τῇ πόλει, μὴ ἀπαγορευόντων τῶν νόμων, τὴν παρὰ ταύτησ ἀηδίαν μυσαχθεὶσ καὶ ἥν φησι κεφάλαιον τῶν πόνων τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν παραγίγνεσθαι λῆρον οἰηθείσ, τοὺσ μὲν ἀγκύλουσ ἐκείνουσ λόγουσ καὶ λαβυρίνθοισ ὁμοίουσ ἀπέφυγε, πρὸσ δὲ τὴν Ἡδονὴν ἄσμενοσ ἐδραπέτευσεν ὥσπερ δεσμά τινα διακόψασ τὰσ τῶν λόγων πλεκτάνασ, ἀνθρώπινα καὶ οὐ βλακώδη φρονήσασ καὶ τὸν μὲν πόνον, ὅπερ ἐστί, πονηρόν, ἡδεῖαν δὲ τὴν ἡδονὴν οἰηθείσ, ἀποκλείειν ἐχρῆν αὐτόν, ὥσπερ ἐκ ναυαγίου λιμένι προσνέοντα καὶ γαλήνησ ἐπιθυμοῦντα συνωθοῦντασ ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν εἰσ τὸν πόνον, καὶ ἔκδοτον τὸν ἄθλιον παρέχειν ταῖσ ἀπορίαισ, καὶ ταῦτα ὥσπερ ἱκέτην ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἐλέου βωμὸν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἡδονὴν καταφεύγοντα, ἵνα τὴν πολυθρύλητον ἀρετὴν δηλαδὴ ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρθιον ἱδρῶτι πολλῷ ἀνελθὼν ἴδῃ κᾆτα δι’ ὅλου πονήσασ τοῦ βίου εὐδαιμονήσῃ μετὰ τὸν βίον; (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 21:4)
  • αὐτοῦ πότερον ἀφροδίσια ναύταισ ἄγουσι πάντα τὸν λοιπὸν ἤδη χρόνον οὐκ ἐν λιμένι τὴν ναῦν ἔχουσιν ἀλλ’ ἔτι πλέουσαν ἀπολείπουσιν· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 4 7:1)
  • καὶ διαβάντεσ οἱ Ἐφέσιοι ἐκ τῆσ νήσου, ἔτεα εἴκοσιν οἰκήσαντεσ, τὸ δεύτερον κτίζουσι Τρηχεῖαν καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ Κορησσόν, καὶ ἱερὸν Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἐπὶ τῇ ἀγορῇ ἱδρύσαντο Ἀπόλλωνόσ τε τοῦ Πυθίου ἐπὶ τῷ λιμένι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 62 2:2)
  • διεκπλώσαντεσ δὲ ταύτην ὁρμίζονται ἐν λιμένι εὐόρμῳ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 21 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. a harbour

  2. a haven

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

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