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λόγχη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λόγχη

Structure: λογχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a spear-head, javelin-head, the point with its barbs, the spear-head
  2. a lance, spear, javelin
  3. a troop of spearmen, "a plump of spears, "

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

  • ἑτέρωθι δὲ τῆσ εἰκόνοσ ἄλλοι Ἔρωτεσ παίζουσιν ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου, δύο μὲν τὴν λόγχην αὐτοῦ φέροντεσ, μιμούμενοι τοὺσ ἀχθοφόρουσ, ὁπότε δοκὸν φέροντεσ βαροῖντο· (Lucian, Herodotus 9:5)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἄδραστοσ ἐπὶ τὸν σῦν ἀφεὶσ τὴν λόγχην ἐκείνου μὲν ἁμαρτήσεται, φονεύσει δὲ τὸν Κροίσου παῖδα, ὡσ ἂν ἀπ’ ἰσχυρᾶσ ἐμβολῆσ τῶν Μοιρῶν φερομένου τοῦ ἀκοντίου ἐπὶ τὸν νεανίσκον. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 12:6)
  • οὐκ ἐρεῖσ ξύνθημα, λόγχην πρὶν διὰ στέρνων μολεῖν; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, trochees3)
  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ ὁρᾷσ ὅπωσ ἐπελάσασ μιᾷ πληγῇ αὐτόν τε καὶ τὸν ἵππον διέπειρα τὴν λόγχην ἀφείσ, εἶτα τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτεμὼν καὶ ἀφελὼν τὸ διάδημα βασιλεὺσ ἤδη γέγονα προσκυνούμενοσ ὑφ̓ ἁπάντων; (Lucian, 64:5)
  • τίσ δὲ πρὸσ λόγχην βλέπων μάρτυσ γένοιτ’ ἂν ὅστισ ἐστὶν ἁγαθόσ; (Euripides, episode 5:13)

Synonyms

  1. a lance

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

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