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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λύμη λύμᾱ λύμαι
Genitive λύμης λύμαιν λυμῶν
Dative λύμῃ λύμαιν λύμαις
Accusative λύμην λύμᾱ λύμᾱς
Vocative λύμη λύμᾱ λύμαι

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

  • κτείνω δ’ οἳ κήπουσ εὐώδεισ φθείρουσιν λύμαισ ἐχθίσταισ, ἑρπετά τε καὶ δάκετα <πάνθ’> ὅσαπερ ἔστιν ὑπ’ ἐμᾶσ πτέρυγοσ ἐν φοναῖσ ὄλλυται. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, strophe 13)
  • "’ Εὐξίθεοσ ὁ Πυθαγορικόσ, ὦ Νίκιον, ὥσ φησι Κλέαρχοσ ὁ περιπατητικὸσ ἐν δευτέρῳ βίων, ἔλεγεν ἐνδεδέσθαι τῷ σώματι καὶ τῷ δεῦρο βίῳ τὰσ ἁπάντων ψυχὰσ τιμωρίασ χάριν, καὶ διείπασθαι τὸν θεὸν ὡσ εἰ μὴ μενοῦσιν ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἑώσ ἂν ἑκὼν αὐτοὺσ λύσῃ, πλείοσι καὶ μείζοσιν ἐμπεσοῦνται τότε λύμαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 4530)
  • φοβερὰ δ’ ἐμοῖσιν ὄσσοισ ὀμίχλα προσῇξε πλήρησ δακρύων σὸν δέμασ εἰσιδούσᾳ πέτραισ προσαυαινόμενον ταῖσδ’ ἀδαμαντοδέτοισι λύμαισ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • μόνον δὴ πρόσθεν ἄλλον ἐν πόνοισ δαμέντ’ ἀδαμαντοδέτοισ Τιτᾶνα λύμαισ εἰσιδόμαν, θεόν, Ἄτλαντοσ αἰὲν; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, epode1)

Synonyms

  1. defilement

Similar forms

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

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