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μεταπύργιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεταπύργιον μεταπύργιου

Structure: μεταπυργι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pu/rgos

Sense

  1. the wall between two towers, the curtain

Declension

Second 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

  • ὡσ δὲ εἴχοντο αὐτῷ πύργοι τε ἔστιν οἳ καὶ μεταπύργια, αὐτὸσ μὲν παρῄει διὰ τῶν ἐπάλξεων ὡσ ἐπὶ τὰ βασίλεια, ὅτι ταύτῃ εὐπορωτέρα ἐφαίνετο ἐσ τὴν πόλιν ἡ κάθοδοσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 23 6:2)
  • τοιούτουσ μὲν οὖν πύργουσ τὸ τρίτον τεῖχοσ εἶχεν ἐνενήκοντα, τὰ μεταπύργια δὲ τούτων ἀνὰ πήχεισ διακοσίουσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 181:1)
  • τεῖχόσ τ’ ἐγείρασ καὶ πύργουσ ἀναστήσασ ξυλίνουσ καὶ μεταπύργια ἐπὶ σταδίουσ ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα ἐξεδέχετο τὸν Ἀντίοχον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 482:2)

Synonyms

  1. the wall between two towers

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

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