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νάπος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νάπος νάπεος

Structure: ναπο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: later form of na/ph, Soph., Eur., Xen.

Sense

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

  • τίνοσ βοὴ πάραυλοσ ἐξέβη νάπουσ; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 14)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δὲ καὶ αὐτὸσ τὴν μὲν φάλαγγα ἐσ βάθοσ ἐκτάξασ ἐπῆγε, τοὺσ τοξότασ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ σφενδονήτασ προεκθέοντασ ἐκέλευσεν ἐκτοξεύειν τε καὶ σφενδονᾶν ἐσ τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ, εἴ πωσ προκαλέσαιτο αὐτοὺσ ἐσ τὰ ψιλὰ ἐκ τοῦ νάπουσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 2 4:3)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἥ τε φάλαγξ πυκνὴ ἐνέβαλλεν ἐσ αὐτοὺσ ἐρρωμένωσ καὶ οἱ ἱππεῖσ οὐκ ἀκοντισμῷ ἔτι, ἀλλ̓ αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ ἵπποισ ὠθοῦντεσ ἄλλῃ καὶ ἄλλῃ προσέπιπτον, τότε δὴ ἐτράπησαν διὰ τοῦ νάπουσ εἰσ τὸν ποταμόν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 2 6:3)
  • καὶ ὃσ ἡγεῖτο, παραγγείλασ διαβαίνειν ᾗ ἕκαστοσ ἐτύγχανε τοῦ νάπουσ ὤν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 25:2)

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

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