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μεταδρομή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεταδρομή

Structure: μεταδρομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a running after, pursuit

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

  • ἐπεὶ τὰ μητρὸσ ταῦθ’ ἃ σιγῶμεν κακὰ ἐσ χεῖρασ ἦλθε, μεταδρομαῖσ Ἐρινύων ἠλαυνόμεσθα φυγάδεσ, ἔνθεν μοι πόδα ἐσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ δῆτ’ ἔπεμψε Λοξίασ, δίκην παρασχεῖν ταῖσ ἀνωνύμοισ θεαῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 2:3)
  • αὐτοὶ δὲ πολλαχόθι ταῖσ μεταδρομαῖσ ἴχνη θέντεσ, τὸ δ’ ἔσχατον ἅλμα μέγα καὶ μακρὰν τῶν ἰχνῶν ἀποσπάσαντεσ οὕτω καθεύδουσιν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 16 9:1)
  • ὅσαι δὲ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων κυνῶν εὑρήματα ἐν ταῖσ ἰχνείαισ καὶ μεταδρομαῖσ προθέουσαι θαμινὰ σκοποῦσιν, ἑαυταῖσ ἀπίστωσ ἔχουσι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 9:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ κελεύσμασιν, ἐὰν ὦσιν ἐν ὄρει αἱ μεταδρομαί, ἐπικελεύειν τόδε, Εὐᾶ κύνεσ, εὖ’ ὦ κύνεσ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 23:2)
  • ἐὰν δὲ τραχεῖσ τόπουσ διαπερᾷ, αἱ πέτραι ἕξουσι τὸν φλοιὸν τοῦ ξύλου ἀφηρπασμένον καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο ῥᾴουσ αἱ μεταδρομαὶ ἔσονται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 20:4)

Synonyms

  1. a running after

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

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