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λύμη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύμη

Structure: λυμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. brutal outrage, maltreatment, maiming, outrages, indignities
  2. defilement

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

  • ἁ μὲν Ἀθάνα τὤργαν’ ἔρριψέν ̔ ἱερᾶσ ἀπὸ χειρὸσ εἶπέ τ’ ἔρρετ’ αἴσχεα, σώματι λύμα,1 οὔ με τᾷ δ’ ἐγὼ κακότατι δίδωμι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 73)
  • πίπτων δ’ οὐκ οἶδεν τόδ’ ὑπ’ ἄφρονι λύμᾳ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 31)
  • ὦ δύσμορ’, οὐδὲ τῷ χρόνῳ φύσασ φανεῖ φρένασ ποτ’ ἀλλὰ λῦμα τῷ γήρᾳ τρέφει; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. defilement

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

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