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λόχμη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: lochmē

Principal Part: λόχμη

Structure: λοχμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: λόχος

Sense

  1. a thicket, coppice, copse

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

  • κἀγὼ ξεπήδης ὡς συναρπάσαι θέλων, λόχμην κενώσας ἔνθ ἐκρυπτόμην δέμας. (Euripides, episode, trochees 7:2)
  • καὶ μὴν δοκῶ σφᾶς ἐν λόχμαις ὄρνιθας ὣς λέκτρων ἔχεσθαι φιλτάτοις ἐν ἑρ´κεσιν. (Euripides, episode 1:11)
  • πρῶτον μέν γ ἔχω τὰς μασχάλας λόχμης δασυτέρας, καθάπερ ἦν ξυγκείμενον: (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:12)
  • τὴν λόχμην πολλὴν φορεῖς. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, strophe 17)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἄν ποτε τρέφειν δύναιτ ἂν μία λόχμη κλέπτα δύο: (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:22)
  • ἐχῖνος ὥς τις ἐν λόχμῃ κεῖσαι πεσών, ἤ τις πίθηκος κύβδα θυμαίνεις τινί. (Sophocles, Ichneutae 10:4)
  • διωκούσης δὲ αὐτῆς ἐν τῇ λόχμῃ ἀγνοήσας Κέφαλος ἀκοντίζει, καὶ τυχὼν ἀποκτείνει Πρόκριν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 15 1:11)
  • ἔνθα δ ἄρ ἐν λόχμῃ πυκινῇ κατέκειτο μέγας σῦς: (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 45:7)
  • νυκτὸς οὖν αὐτῷ τῶν πυλῶν ἀνοιγομένων, συνθέμενος Ἀννίβᾳ καὶ στρατιώτας λαβών, τοὺς μὲν ἔκρυψεν ἐν λόχμῃ τινὶ πλησίον, τοὺς δ ἐπακολουθεῖν ἐκέλευσεν ἑαυτῷ δι ὀλίγου, τοὺς δὲ σὺν αὐτῷ προσιέναι, θώρακας ἔνδοθεν ὑπεζωσμένους καὶ ξίφη, τὰ δ ἐκτὸς ὡς ἂν ἐς κυνηγέτας ἐσκευασμένους. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 6 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. a thicket

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

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