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λινοθώρηξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λινοθώρηξ λινοθώρηκος

Structure: λινοθωρηκ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. wearing a linen cuirass

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’ ἔτι καὶ τῶν εἰσιν ἀμείνονεσ, οἳ τὸ μεσηγὺ Τίρυνθοσ ναίουσι καὶ Ἀρκαδίησ πολυμήλου, Ἀργεῖοι λινοθώρηκεσ, κέντρα πτολέμοιο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 732)
  • ὀλίγοσ μὲν ἐήν λινοθώρηξ, ἐγχείῃ δ’ ἐκέκαστο Πανέλληνασ καὶ Ἀχαιούσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 46:2)
  • οἳ δ’ Ἀδρήστειάν τ’ εἶχον καὶ δῆμον Ἀπαισοῦ καὶ Πιτύειαν ἔχον καὶ Τηρείησ ὄροσ αἰπύ, τῶν ἦρχ’ Ἄδρηστόσ τε καὶ Ἄμφιοσ λινοθώρηξ υἱε͂ δύω Μέροποσ Περκωσίου, ὃσ περὶ πάντων ᾔδεε μαντοσύνασ, οὐδὲ οὓσ παῖδασ ἐάσκε στείχειν ἐσ πόλεμον φθισήνορα· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 89:1)
  • ἐπιμερίζει δὲ συνεχῶσ τὰ κατὰ τὴν μετὰ τὸν Αἴσηπον οἳ δ’ Ἀδρήστειάν τ’ εἶχον καὶ δῆμον Ἀπαισοῦ, καὶ Πιτύαν εἶχον καὶ Τηρείησ ὄροσ αἰπύ, τῶν ἦρχ’ Ἄδρηστόσ τε καὶ Ἄμφιοσ λινοθώρηξ, υἱε͂ δύω Μέροποσ Περκωσίου. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 15:2)

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

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