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μύωψ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύωψ μύωπος

Structure: μυωπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mu/w, w)/y

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

  • 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 ὡρ́μησεν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀδύρμαχον καὶ πατάξασ τῇ κοπίδι παρὰ τὸν αὐχένα μέχρι τῆσ ζώνησ διέτεμεν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 54:1)
  • ἅμα δὲ τῷ τὸν Μαχανίδαν κατά τινα τόπον εὔβατον τῆσ τάφρου, προσθέντα τοὺσ μύωπασ, βίᾳ τὸν ἵππον ἐπάγειν καὶ διαπερᾶν, συναγαγὼν ἐκ μεταβολῆσ ὁ Φιλοποίμην αὐτῷ καὶ πατάξασ τῷ δόρατι καιρίωσ, καὶ προσενεγκὼν τῷ σαυρωτῆρι πληγὴν ἄλλην ἐκ διαλήψεωσ, ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ διέφθειρε τὸν τύραννον. (Polybius, Histories, book 11, chapter 18 4:1)

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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