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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

  • ἔνδοθέν τε γὰρ εὖ παρεσκεύασται αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ ἔξω μάλα καρτερῶσ πέφρακται πρὸσ αὐτά, ὡσ μὴ παριέναι εἰσ τὸ εἴσω, μηδὲ παραδέχεσθαι μήτε ἥλιον αὐτὸν μήτε κρύοσ ἐπὶ λύμῃ τοῦ σώματοσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 26:5)
  • μέλεοι δῆθ’ οἳ μελέουσ θανάτουσ εὑρ́οντο δόμων ἐπὶ λύμῃ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 12)
  • πότερα χερσὶν ἢ λύμῃ βίου; (Sophocles, episode 3:29)
  • ἐφάνη γὰρ αὐτοῖσ μάντισ χρησμοὺσ λέγων καὶ ἐνθεάζων, ὃν ἐνόμισαν μάγον εἶναι ἐπὶ λύμῃ τοῦ στρατοῦ πρὸσ Πελοποννησίων ἀπεσταλμένον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 8 3:2)
  • Αὗται αἱ ἀνάγκαι εὐταμίευτοί εἰσι καὶ ἐσ τὸ ἰσχυρότερον καὶ ἐσ τὸ ἧσσον, καὶ ἰσχὺν ἔχουσι τοιαύτην, ὥστε, καὶ εἴ τισ ἐπὶ λύμῃ βούλοιτο, ἀλλὰ μὴ ἐπὶ ἰητρείῃ, ἐσ τοιαύτασ ἀνάγκασ ἀγαγεῖν, κἂν τούτῳ ἰσχυρῶσ δύνασθαι‧ καὶ γὰρ ἂν κατατείνων κατὰ μῆκοσ μοῦνον ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν οὕτω, καὶ ἄλλην ἀνάγκην οὐδεμίην προστιθεὶσ, ὅμωσ κατατείνειεν ἄν τισ ἱκανῶσ‧ καὶ εἰ μὴ κατατείνων, αὐτῇ δὲ μοῦνον τῇ σανίδι οὕτωσ ἰποίη τισ, καὶ οὕτωσ ἂν ἱκανῶσ καταναγκάσειεν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 47.15)

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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