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ὁπλομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπλομαχία

Structure: ὁπλομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o(ploma/xos

Sense

  1. a fighting with heavy arms, the art of using them, the art of war, tactics

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

  • καὶ γὰρ προσεποιεῖτο ἐπιστήμων εἶναι τῶν ἀμφὶ τάξεισ τε καὶ ὁπλομαχίαν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 9:2)
  • ἃ δὲ τὸν μὴ παθόντα ἢ ποιήσαντα δεῖ νικᾶν καὶ εἰσ ὁπόσα, καθάπερ νῦν ἐν τῇ πάλῃ διενομοθετήσαντο οἱ περὶ τὴν πάλην αὐτὴν τί τοῦ καλῶσ παλαίοντοσ ἔργον καὶ μὴ καλῶσ, ταὐτὸν δὴ καὶ τοὺσ περὶ ὁπλομαχίαν ἄκρουσ παρακαλοῦντασ, χρὴ τούτουσ συννομοθετεῖν κελεύειν τίσ νικᾶν ἄρα δίκαιοσ περὶ ταύτασ αὖ τὰσ μάχασ, ὅτι μὴ παθὼν ἢ δράσασ, καὶ τὸν ἡττώμενον ὡσαύτωσ ἥτισ διακρίνει τάξισ. (Plato, Laws, book 8 35:1)

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

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