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λόχος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λόχος λόχου

Structure: λοχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. ambush
  2. The place of an ambush: ambuscade
  3. A body of men for ambush, armed band
  4. childbirth
  5. a file in the phalanx

Declension

Second 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

  • αἰεὶ δ’ ἐν λόχοισ εὑρίσκεται Θυμβραῖον ἀμφὶ βωμὸν ἄστεωσ πέλασ θάσσων· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:13)
  • λόχοισ δ’ ἐνεστὼσ ὥσπερ Ἀργεῖοσ γεγὼσ ἤμυνε χώρᾳ, χὡπότ’ εὖ πράσσοι πόλισ, ἔχαιρε, λυπρῶσ δ’ ἔφερεν, εἴ τι δυστυχοῖ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:5)
  • ἡμίσεασ τῶν ἐν τοῖσ λόχοισ ἀνδρῶν ἀπεστραμμένουσ ἀπὸ σφῶν ἔχουσα, ὡσ ἀντινώτουσ εἶναι· (Arrian, chapter 29 2:1)
  • ἥξει καὶ πολύπουσ καὶ πολύχειρ ἁ δεινοῖσ κρυπτομένα λόχοισ χαλκόπουσ Ἐρινύσ. (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • καὶ οὐδεμιᾶσ ἔτι κληθείσησ ἐπὶ τὴν ψηφοφορίαν τάξεωσ ‐ τρισὶ γὰρ ἦσαν λόχοισ πλείουσ οἱ διενέγκαντεσ τὴν ψῆφον λόχοι τῶν ὑπολειπομένων ‐ ὁ μὲν δῆμοσ ἀπῄει συμφορὰν βαρεῖαν ἡγούμενοσ, ὅτι μισῶν αὐτοὺσ ἀνὴρ ἐξουσίασ ὑπατικῆσ ἔσται κύριοσ, ἡ βουλὴ δὲ ἔπεμπε τοὺσ παραληψομένουσ τὸν ὕπατον καὶ ἄξοντασ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχήν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 17 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. ambush

  2. The place of an ambush

  3. A body of men for ambush

  4. childbirth

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