μόρᾱ
First declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μόρᾱ
μόρᾱς
Structure:
μορ
(Stem)
+
ᾱ
(Ending)
Sense
- mora (a division of the Spartan army, varying in strength, at first six in number)
- 362–354 BC, Xenophon, Ἑλληνικά in Xenophontis Opera Omnia, volume I (1900), Ἑλληνικῶν Β, chapter iv, § 31:
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.
- ἦσαν δὲ δύο μόραι Λακεδαιμονίων, τὴν δὲ μόραν Ἔφοροσ μὲν ἄνδρασ εἶναι πεντακοσίουσ φησί, Καλλισθένησ δ’ ἑπτακοσίουσ, ἄλλοι δέ τινεσ ἐνακοσίουσ, ὧν Πολύβιόσ ἐστι. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 17 2:2)
- ὁ δ’ Ἀγησίλαοσ προαγαγὼν τὴν δύναμιν, ἧκεν εἰσ τὴν Βοιωτίαν, ἔχων τοὺσ σύμπαντασ στρατιώτασ πλείουσ τῶν μυρίων ὀκτακισχιλίων, ὧν ἦσαν αἱ Λακεδαιμονίων πέντε μόραι· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 32 2:1)
- οὕτω δὴ καθαραὶ μὲν φρουρῶν πόλεισ, μόραι δὲ καὶ ἶλαι ἀποχρῶσιν ἐθνῶν ὅλων εἶναι φυλακὴ, καὶ οὐδ’ αὐταὶ κατὰ τὰσ πόλεισ ἑκάστῳ τῶν γενῶν πολλαὶ ἱδρυμέναι, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἀριθμῷ τῶν ἄλλων ἐνεσπαρμέναι ταῖσ χώραισ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 19:10)