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.
- ἑκάστη δὲ τῶν ὁπλιτικῶν μορῶν ἔχει πολέμαρχον ἕνα, λοχαγοὺσ τέτταρασ, πεντηκοντῆρασ ὀκτώ, ἐνωμοτάρχουσ ἑκκαίδεκα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 11 5:2)
- ἐκ δὲ τούτων τῶν μορῶν διὰ παρεγγυήσεωσ καθίστανται τοτὲ μὲν εἰσ . (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 11 5:3)
- ἐξέπεμπον δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξω μορῶν μέχρι τῆσ αὐτῆσ ἡλικίασ· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 20:2)
- καὶ τοῖσ ἐλέφασιν ἔδειξαν αἷμα σταφυλῆσ καὶ μόρων τοῦ παραστῆσαι αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 6:34)
- Κλέαρχόσ φησι τὸ μὲν ὕδωρ ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ γάλα λευκὸν λέγεσθαι, οἶνον δὲ καθάπερ καὶ τὸ νέκταρ ἐρυθρόν, μέλι δὲ καὶ ἔλαιον χλωρόν, τὸ δ’ ἐκ τῶν μόρων θλιβόμενον μέλαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 19 2:2)
- ἀνὴρ δ’ ἐκεῖνοσ ἦν πεπαίτεροσ μόρων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 36 1:3)
- ὡσ αἰτίαν γε τῶνδε κἀκείνων ἔχων πρὸσ τῆσ θανούσησ τῆσδ’ ἐπεσκήπτου μόρων ποίῳ δὲ κἀπελύσατ’ ἐν φοναῖσ τρόπῳ; (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 34)
- ἴτω ἴτω, φανήτω μόρων ὁ κάλλιστ’ ἔχων ἐμοὶ τερμίαν ἄγων ἁμέραν ὕπατοσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 31)
