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μύωψ?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration: myōps

Principal Part: μύωψ μύωπος

Structure: μυωπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: μύω, ὤψ

Sense

  1. contracting the eyes, shortsighted
  2. the horsefly or gadfly
  3. a good, spur, a stimulant

Declension

Third 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

  • ἡ δ ἅτε βησσήεντος ἀποπλαγχθεῖσα νομοῖο πόρτις ἐρημαίῃσιν ἐνὶ ξυλόχοισιν ἀλᾶται φοινήεντι μύωπι, βοῶν ἐλατῆρι, τυπεῖσα: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 118)
  • ὁ δ ἀκούσας εὐθὺς μύωπι διὰ τοῦ ὠτὸς τυπεὶς διακέκαυται ὡς τὸ εἰκὸς καὶ ἀπέστραπται τὸν φίλον οὐ περιμείνας τὸν ἀκριβῆ ἔλεγχον. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 14:6)
  • ἐν τούτοις δὲ καὶ ὁ Λογχάτης καὶ ὁ Μακέντης ἔτυχον ὄντες καὶ ἐτέτρωντο ἤδη προκινδυνεύοντες, ὁ μὲν στυρακίῳ εἰς ^ τὸν μηρόν, ὁ Λογχάτης, ὁ Μακέντης δὲ πελέκει εἰς τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ κοντῷ εἰς τὸν ὦμον, ὅπερ αἰσθόμενος ὁ Ἀρσακόμας, ἐν ἡμῖν τοῖς ἄλλοις ὤν, δεινὸν ἡγησάμενος εἰ ἄπεισι καταλιπὼν τοὺς φίλους, προσβαλὼν τοὺς μύωπας τῷ ἵππῳ ἐμβοήσας ἤλαυνε διὰ τῶν πολεμίων κοπίδα διηρμένος, ὥστε τοὺς Μάχλυας μηδὲ ὑποστῆναι τὸ ῥόθιον τοῦ θυμοῦ, ἀλλὰ διαιρεθέντες ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ διεξελθεῖν, Ὁ δὲ ἀνακτησάμενος τοὺς φίλους καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἅπαντας παρακαλέσας ὡρ´μησεν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀδύρμαχον καὶ πατάξας τῇ κοπίδι παρὰ τὸν αὐχένα μέχρι τῆς ζώνης διέτεμεν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 54:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἠθύμουν ἀπιόντος αὐτοῦ, καὶ πολλὴν τριβὴν προσεδόκων καὶ μῆκος ἀργὸν ἐν τῷ Νικίᾳ τὸν πόλεμον ἕξειν, καθάπερ μύωπος ἀφῃρημένου τῶν πράξεων. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 6:2)
  • εὐθὺς δὲ μορφὴ καὶ φρένες διάστροφοι ἦσαν, κεραστὶς δ, ὡς ὁρᾶτ, ὀξυστόμῳ μύωπι χρισθεῖς ἐμμανεῖ σκιρτήματι ᾖσσον πρὸς εὔποτόν τε Κερχνείας ῥέος Λέρνης τε κρήνην : (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. contracting the eyes

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

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