Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • παῖδεσ ἐμοὶ καὶ πατρὸσ ἀτασθάλου, αἴ κ’ ἐθέλητε πείθεσθαι, πατρόσ κε κακὴν τισαίμεθα λώβην ὑμετέρου· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 17:1)
  • οὐδ’ ἀπὸ μητρὸσ λώβην, ὡσ τὸ πάροιθεν, ἀεικέα παῖδεσ ἄμυνον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 14:35)
  • οὐδέ κε λώβην τίσειεν Πελίησ, εἰ μή σύ γε νόστον ὀπάσσεισ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 2:13)
  • τὴν ξηρὴν ἐπὶ νῶτα Λυκαινίδα, τὴν Ἀφροδίτησ λώβην, τὴν ἐλάφου παντὸσ ἀπυγοτέρην, αἰπόλοσ ᾗ μεθύων οὐκ ἄν ποτε, φασί, συνῴκει, γοῖ, γοῖ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3271)
  • οὕτω που καὶ κείνῳ ἐφεψιόωντο γυναῖκεσ ξείνων τηλεδαπῶν, ὅτε τευ κλυτὰ δώμαθ’ ἵκοιτο, ὡσ σέθεν αἱ κύνεσ αἵδε καθεψιόωνται ἅπασαι, τάων νῦν λώβην τε καὶ αἴσχεα πόλλ’ ἀλεείνων οὐκ ἐάασ νίζειν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 39:5)

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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