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μύρτον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύρτον μύρτου

Structure: μυρτ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from mu/rtos

Sense

  1. a myrtle-berry

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

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ μετὰ μάχησ καὶ φόνου τῶν πολεμίων ἐπικρατήσαντεσ τὸν Ἀρήϊον ἐκεῖνον, ὡσ ἐοίκε, καὶ φοβερὸν εἰσῆγον, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖσ καθαρμοῖσ τῶν στρατοπέδων εἰώθεσαν, δάφνῃ πολλῇ καταστέψαντεσ τὰ ὅπλα καὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ, τοῖσ δὲ πολέμου μὲν μὴ δεηθεῖσι στρατηγοῖσ, ὁμιλίᾳ δὲ καὶ πειθοῖ καὶ διὰ λόγου πάντα θεμένοισ καλῶσ, οἱο͂ν ἐπιπαιανίσαι τὴν ἀπόλεμον ταύτην καὶ πανηγυρικὴν ἀπεδίδου πομπὴν ὁ νόμοσ, καὶ γὰρ ὁ αὐλὸσ εἰρήνησ μέροσ καὶ τὸ μύρτον Ἀφροδίτησ φυτόν, ἣ μάλιστα θεῶν ἀπέχθεται βίᾳ καὶ πολέμοισ. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 22 3:1)
  • διὲξ τὸ μύρτον ἀντὶ τοῦ διὰ τὸ μύρτον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown147)
  • τὸν καλόν, ὦ Χάριτεσ, Διονύσιον, εἰ μὲν ἕλοιτο τἀμά, καὶ εἰσ ὡρ́ασ αὖθισ ἄγοιτε καλὸν εἰ δ’ ἕτερον στέρξειε παρεὶσ ἐμέ, μύρτον ἑώλον ἐρρίφθω ξηροῖσ φυρόμενον σκυβάλοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1071)
  • Νικίου, Εὐφήμου τ’ ἀμμότροφον πάραλον ἐν δ’ ἄρα Δαμάγητον, ἰόν μέλαν, ἡδύ τε μύρτον Καλλιμάχου, στυφελοῦ μεστὸν ἀεὶ μέλιτοσ, λυχνίδα τ’ Εὐφορίωνοσ, ἰδ’ ἐν Μούσαισ κυκλάμινον, ὃσ Διὸσ ἐκ κούρων ἔσχεν ἐπωνυμίην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 4, chapter 1 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a myrtle-berry

Related

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

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