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ὀκλαδίας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀκλαδίας

Structure: ὀκλαδι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: o)kla/zw

Sense

  1. a folding-chair, camp-stool

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

  • κἀπειδὴ καιρὸσ ἦν, ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνοσ ἐδειπνοῦμεν ἔκειντο δὲ καὶ ὀκλαδίαι καὶ ἀσκάνται. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:1)
  • "τὸ δὲ πονεῖν δούλων καὶ ταπεινῶν διὸ καὶ συστέλλονται οὗτοι καὶ τὰσ φύσεισ, καὶ ἡ Ἀθηναίων πόλισ, ἑώσ ἐτρύφα, μεγίστη τε ἦν καὶ μεγαλοψυχότατοι ἔτρεφεν ἄνδρασ, ἁλουργῆ μὲν γὰρ ἠμπίσχοντο ἱμάτια, ποικίλουσ δ’ ὑπέδυνον χιτῶνασ, κορύμβουσ δ’ ἀναδούμενοι τῶν τριχῶν χρυσοῦσ τέττιγασ περὶ τὸ μέτωπον καὶ τὰσ κόρρασ ἐφόρουν ὀκλαδίασ τε αὐτοῖσ δίφρουσ ἔφερον οἱ παῖδεσ, ἵνα μὴ καθίζοιεν ὡσ ἔτυχεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 55)
  • ἀναθήματα δὲ ὁπόσα ἄξια λόγου, τῶν μὲν ἀρχαίων δίφροσ ὀκλαδίασ ἐστὶ Δαιδάλου ποίημα, λάφυρα δὲ ἀπὸ Μήδων Μασιστίου θώραξ, ὃσ εἶχεν ἐν Πλαταιαῖσ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν τῆσ ἵππου, καὶ ἀκινάκησ Μαρδονίου λεγόμενοσ εἶναι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a folding-chair

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

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