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λώβη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λώβη

Structure: λωβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. despiteful treatment, outrage, dishonour, mutilation, maiming
  2. a disgrace

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

  • οὔτοι σ’ Ἀχαιῶν, οἶδα, μή τισ ὑβρίσῃ στυγναῖσι λώβαισ, οὐδὲ χωρὶσ ὄντ’ ἐμοῦ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:10)
  • τοιγάρ σφ’ Ὀλύμπου τοῦδ’ ὁ πρεσβεύων πατὴρ μνήμων τ’ Ἐρινὺσ καὶ τελεσφόροσ Δίκη κακοὺσ κακῶσ φθείρειαν, ὥσπερ ἤθελον τὸν ἄνδρα λώβαισ ἐκβαλεῖν ἀναξίωσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 5:5)
  • οὓσ ἐν ὄψει τῶν συγγενῶν στήσαντεσ ἀπολοῦμεν, εἰ τολμήσαιεν ὁμόσε χωρεῖν, ὡσ ταῖσ ἐσχάταισ λώβαισ διαχρησόμενοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 62 8:3)

Synonyms

  1. a disgrace

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

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