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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

  • πᾷ πόδ’ ἐπᾴξασ σαρκῶν ὀστέων τ’ ἐμπλησθῶ, θοίναν ἀγρίων θηρῶν τιθέμενοσ, ἀρνύμενοσ λώβαν λύμασ ἀντίποιν’ ἐμᾶσ; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 1:3)
  • οἰοῖ οἰοῖ, λύμασ, ᾇ σὺ πρὸ γᾶσ ὑλάσκων περί, χάμψα, βρυάζεισ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • μεγάλων συμφορῶν, καὶ εἰσ θανάτουσ οἰκτροὺσ καὶ λύμασ ἀνηκέστουσ καταστρέφουσα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 61 4:1)
  • τῶν τε ἁμαρτηθέντων αὑτοῖσ οἱ πολλοὶ συνεγνωκότεσ καὶ τοῦ φόβου μετέχειν ἡγούμενοι συνέπρασσον, εὖ τὸν Σύλλαν εἰδότεσ οὐ κόλασιν ἢ διόρθωσιν ἢ φόβον ἐπὶ σφίσιν, ἀλλὰ λύμασ καὶ θανάτουσ καὶ δημεύσεισ καὶ ἀναίρεσιν ὅλωσ ἀθρόαν ἐπινοοῦντα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 9 7:4)
  • δι’ ἧσ φερόμενοσ καὶ πάσασ ὑποδεχόμενοσ τὰσ ἀνθρωπείασ λύμασ διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τοῦ ῥεύματοσ, τέλοσ οὐ μακρὰν τῆσ Σελευκείασ ποιεῖται τὴν ἐκβολὴν εἰσ τὸ προειρημένον πέλαγοσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 59 11:1)

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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