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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

  • οἱ πάλαι πολλὰ τοιαῦτα πρὸ ἡμῶν ἀπέρριψαν ἐσ τούσ σοὶ ὁμοίουσ ἕκαστοι τοὺσ τότε ‐ ἦσαν γὰρ καὶ τότε, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, βδελυροί τινεσ ἐσ τὰ ἤθη καὶ μιαροὶ καὶ κακοήθεισ τὸν τρόπον ‐ καὶ ὁ μὲν κόθορνόν τινα εἶπεν, εἰκάσασ αὐτοῦ τὸν βίον ἀμφίβολον ὄντα τοῖσ τοιούτοισ ὑποδήμασιν , ὁ δὲ λύμην,^ ὅτι τὰσ ἐκκλησίασ θορυβώδησ ῥήτωρ ὢν ἐπετάραττεν, ὁ δὲ ἑβδόμην, ὅτι ὥσπερ οἱ παῖδεσ ἐν ταῖσ ἑβδόμαισ κἀκεῖνοσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ ἔπαιζεν καὶ διεγέλα καὶ παιδιὰν ἐποιεῖτο τὴν σπουδὴν τοῦ δήμου. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 13:3)
  • Ὅτι μὲν οὖν οὔτε Αἰγύπτιοι τὸ γένοσ ἦσαν ἡμῶν οἱ πατέρεσ οὔτε διὰ λύμην σωμάτων ἢ τοιαύτασ ἄλλασ συμφοράσ τινασ ἐκεῖθεν ἐξηλάθησαν, οὐ μετρίωσ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πέρα τοῦ συμμέτρου προαποδεδεῖχθαι νομίζω. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 10:1)
  • διὰ δὲ λύμην σωμάτων αὐτοὺσ ἐκβληθῆναι κατεψεύσαντο· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 264:3)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἀτίλιοσ Ῥῆγλοσ ἐν ἀπορρήτῳ τοῖσ τέλεσι Ῥωμαίων ἐπισκήψασ ἐγκρατῶσ ἔχεσθαι τοῦ πολέμου, ἐπανῆλθεν ἐσ λύμην ἕτοιμον, καὶ αὐτὸν οἱ Καρχηδόνιοι καθείρξαντεσ ἐν γαλεάγρᾳ κέντρα πάντοθεν ἐχούσῃ διέφθειραν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 4:2)
  • νῦν δὲ λύμην τρὶσ τόσσα πορών· (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 6:11)

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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