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μίλτος

Second declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μίλτος

Structure: μιλτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. red chalk, ruddle

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μίλτος μίλτω μίλτοι
Genitive μίλτου μίλτοιν μίλτων
Dative μίλτῳ μίλτοιν μίλτοις
Accusative μίλτον μίλτω μίλτους
Vocative μίλτε μίλτω μίλτοι

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

  • ποτέρωσ ἂν οὖν, ἔφην ἐγώ, τοῦ σώματοσ αὖ δοκοίην εἶναι ἀξιοφίλητοσ μᾶλλον κοινωνόσ, εἴ σοι τὸ σῶμα πειρῴμην παρέχειν τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ ἐπιμελόμενοσ ὅπωσ ὑγιαῖνόν τε καὶ ἐρρωμένον ἔσται, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα τῷ ὄντι εὔχρωσ σοι ἔσομαι, ἢ εἴ σοι μίλτῳ ἀλειφόμενοσ καὶ τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ὑπαλειφόμενοσ ἀνδρεικέλῳ ἐπιδεικνύοιμί τε ἐμαυτὸν καὶ συνείην ἐξαπατῶν σε καὶ παρέχων ὁρᾶν καὶ ἅπτεσθαι μίλτου ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐμαυτοῦ χρωτόσ; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 10 6:1)
  • ἐγὼ μέν, ἔφη ἐκείνη, οὔτ’ ἂν μίλτου ἁπτοίμην ἥδιον ἢ σοῦ οὔτ’ ἂν ἀνδρεικέλου χρῶμα ὁρῴην ἥδιον ἢ τὸ σὸν οὔτ’ ἂν τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ὑπαληλιμμένουσ ἥδιον ὁρῴην τοὺσ σοὺσ ἢ ὑγιαίνοντασ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 10 7:1)
  • τοῖοσ, ὁκοῖον ὁρᾷσ, ὦ παρ’ ἔμ’ ἐρχόμενε σύκινοσ, οὐ ῥίνῃ πεπονημένοσ, οὐδ’ ἀπὸ μίλτου, ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ ποιμενικῆσ αὐτομαθοῦσ ξοΐδοσ . (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 862)
  • καὶ ὀρυκτοῦ δὲ εἶναι μέταλλον καὶ ἀργύρου καὶ χαλκοῦ καὶ μίλτου· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 2 28:9)

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

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