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νυκτοπορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτοπορία

Structure: νυκτοπορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a night-journey, night-march

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

  • εἰσ ἃ βλέποντεσ, καὶ τηροῦντεσ τὴν ἑαυτῶν πρόθεσιν, ᾤοντο δεῖν τὸν Φίλιππον περὶ τὸν Ἀχελῷον στρατοπεδεύσαντα προσαναπαῦσαι τὴν δύναμιν ἐκ τῆσ νυκτοπορίασ, σπουδάζοντεσ βραχεῖάν γε τοῖσ Αἰτωλοῖσ ἀναστροφὴν δοῦναι πρὸσ τὴν βοήθειαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 7 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a night-journey

Related

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

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