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ὁλκάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁλκάς ὁλκάδος

Structure: ὁλκαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(/lkw

Sense

  1. a ship which is towed, a ship of burthen, trading vessel, merchantman

Declension

Third 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

  • οἰάξι μεγάλων περιαγωγὰσ ὁλκάδων, τοῦτο δὲ τροχῶν κεραμεικῶν δίνησιν ἄκρασ παραψαύσει χειρὸσ ὁμαλῶσ περιφερομένων· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 20 12:2)
  • αἱ μὲν οὖν ἐπίκωποι νῆεσ ὁπηλίκαι ποτ’ ἂν οὖσαι τύχωσι καὶ τῶν ὁλκάδων αἱ μέχρι τρισχιλιοφόρων εἰσάγουσί τε διὰ τοῦ στόματοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ μέχρι τῆσ Ῥώμησ εἰρεσίᾳ καὶ ῥύμασι παρελκόμεναι κομίζονται, αἱ δὲ μείζουσ πρὸ τοῦ στόματοσ ἐπ’ ἀγκυρῶν σαλεύουσαι ταῖσ ποταμηγοῖσ ἀπογεμίζονταί τε καὶ ἀντιφορτίζονται σκάφαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 44 5:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἀπηγγέλθη τοῖσ ἐν τῇ πόλει ὁ κατάπλουσ τῶν σιτηγῶν ὁλκάδων τῶν ἀπὸ Σικελίασ, πολλὴ ζήτησισ ἐνέπιπτε τοῖσ πατρικίοισ ὑπὲρ τῆσ διαθέσεωσ αὐτοῦ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 20 5:1)
  • Τῶν δ’ αὐτῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ πεζοῦ τῷ Μιθριδάτῃ παραπλέοντοσ ἐπὶ ὁλκάδων καὶ τριήρων, πνεῦμα Καυνικὸν ἐμπεσὸν ἐσ αὐτὰσ ἐσ Ῥόδον παρήνεγκε· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 5:1)
  • καὶ τάδε μὲν ἦν αὐτῷ τὰ πεζά, νῆεσ δὲ μακραὶ μὲν ἐντελεῖσ τοῖσ πληρώμασιν ἑξακόσιαι, καὶ τούτων ἐσ ἑκατὸν Ῥωμαίων ἐπιβατῶν, αἳ καὶ μάλιστα προύχειν ἐδόκουν, πολὺ δὲ ὁλκάδων καὶ σκευοφόρων ἄλλο πλῆθοσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 8 1:9)

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

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