Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νεώριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεώριον νεώριου

Structure: νεωρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: newro/s

Sense

  1. a place were ships are taken care of, a dockyard

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

  • μαρτύρομαι ὑμᾶσ, ἀτελὲσ μένει τὸ τεῖχοσ καὶ τὰ νεώρια· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 9:6)
  • ἐν οἷσ καὶ ἡ ἀκτὴ καὶ οἱ λιμένεσ εἰσὶ καὶ τὰ νεώρια, ἃ οἱ πρόγονοι κατασκευάσαντεσ ὑμῖν κατέλιπον. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 15:5)
  • καλλίστη κόρη, ἥπερ ταμιεύει τὸν κεραυνὸν τοῦ Διὸσ καὶ τἄλλ’ ἁπαξάπαντα, τὴν εὐβουλίαν τὴν εὐνομίαν τὴν σωφροσύνην τὰ νεώρια, τὴν λοιδορίαν τὸν κωλακρέτην τὰ τριώβολα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 1 2:13)
  • νομίζοντεσ οὖν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἱκετεύειν ὑμῶν τὴν χώραν καὶ τὰ δένδρα, δεῖσθαι τοὺσ λιμένασ <καὶ> τὰ νεώρια καὶ τὰ τείχη τῆσ πόλεωσ, ἀξιοῦν δὲ καὶ τοὺσ νεὼσ καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ βοηθεῖν αὐτοῖσ, παράδειγμα ποιήσατε Λεωκράτη, ἀναμνησθέντεσ τῶν κατηγορημένων, ὅτι οὐ πλέον ἰσχύει παρ’ ὑμῖν ἔλεοσ οὐδὲ δάκρυα τῆσ ὑπὲρ τῶν νόμων καὶ τοῦ δήμου σωτηρίασ. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 210:3)
  • ὃν ὑπὸ τῆσ ἐκκλησίασ ἀφεθέντα συλλαβὼν ἐπὶ τὴν ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴν ἀνήγαγε, καὶ παρ’ οὐδὲν τὸ προσκροῦσαι τῷ δήμῳ θέμενοσ ἤλεγξεν ὑπεσχημένον Φιλίππῳ τὰ νεώρια ἐμπρήσειν καὶ παραδοθεὶσ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ὑπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀπέθανε, κατηγόρησε δὲ καὶ τῆσ ἱερείασ Θεωρίδοσ ὡσ ἄλλα τε ῥᾳδιουργούσησ πολλὰ καὶ τοὺσ δούλουσ ἐξαπατᾶν διδασκούσησ· (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 14 4:2)

Related

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION