Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νευρή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νευρή

Structure: νευρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for neura/.

Sense

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.

Examples

  • αὖ ἔρυσαν μὲν πρῶτα καὶ ἔσφαξαν καὶ ἔδειραν καὶ λίγξε βιόσ, νευρὴ δὲ μέγ’ ἰάχεν, ἆλτο δ’ ὀιστόσ καὶ σφαῖραν ἔπειτ’ ἔρριψε μετ’ ἀμφίπολον βασίλεια· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 533)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ κυκλοτερὲσ μέγα τόξον ἔτεινε, λίγξε βιόσ, νευρὴ δὲ μέγ’ ἰάχεν, ἆλτο δ’ ὀϊστὸσ ὀξυβελὴσ καθ’ ὅμιλον ἐπιπτέσθαι μενεαίνων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 11:12)
  • αὐτῷ ὑπὸ βαιὸσ ἐλυσθεὶσ Αἰσονίδῃ γλυφίδασ μέσσῃ ἐνικάτθετο νευρῇ, ἰθὺσ δ’ ἀμφοτέρῃσι διασχόμενοσ παλάμῃσιν ἧκ’ ἐπὶ Μηδείῃ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 5:16)
  • φεύγωμεν, δυσέρωτεσ, ἑώσ βέλοσ οὐκ ἐπὶ νευρῇ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 124 1:1)
  • αἶψα δ’ ἐπὶ νευρῇ κατεκόσμει πικρὸν ὀϊστόν, εὔχετο δ’ Ἀπόλλωνι Λυκηγενέϊ κλυτοτόξῳ ἀρνῶν πρωτογόνων ῥέξειν κλειτὴν ἑκατόμβην οἴκαδε νοστήσασ ἱερῆσ εἰσ ἄστυ Ζελείησ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 11:9)

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

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