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ὀξυβόης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξυβόης ὀξυβόου

Structure: ὀξυβο (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: boa/w

Sense

  1. shrill-screaming

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

  • κέκλυτε μαντιπόλου τόδε θέσφατον Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἀμφ’ ἔριδοσ κρυερῆσ, τὴν ἀνέρεσ ἐστήσαντο ὀξυβόαι, μύθοισι κορυσσόμενοι πυκινοῖσι. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 31:1)
  • Ὀξυβόαι κώνωπεσ, ἀναιδέεσ, αἵματοσ ἀνδρῶν σίφωνεσ, νυκτὸσ κνώδαλα διπτέρυγα, βαιὸν Ζηνοφίλαν, λίτομαι, πάρεθ’ ἥσυχον ὕπνον εὕδειν, τἀμὰ δ’ ἰδοὺ σαρκοφαγεῖτε μέλη, καίτοι πρὸσ τί μάτην αὐδῶ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1511)

Similar forms

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

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