Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ὁπλοποιία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπλοποιία

Structure: ὁπλοποιι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a making of arms

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

  • ὣσ οἱ μὲν δαίνυντο καθ’ ὑψερεφὲσ μέγα δῶμα γείτονεσ ἠδὲ ἔται Μενελάου κυδαλίμοιο τερπόμενοι μετὰ δέ σφιν ἐμέλπετο θεῖοσ ἀοιδὸσ φορμίζων δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ’ αὐτοὺσ μολπῆσ ἐξάρχοντεσ ἐδίνευον κατὰ μέσσουσ, μετενεγκόντεσ ἐκ τῆσ Ὁπλοποιίασ σὺν αὐτῷ γε τῷ περὶ τὴν λέξιν ἁμαρτήματι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 9 2:1)
  • ὑφ’ ἕνα δὲ καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν οἱ μὲν περὶ τὴν πόλιν τάφρον ὤρυττον βαθεῖαν, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ χώρασ χάρακα παρεκόμιζον, τινὲσ δὲ τὰ πεπονηκότα τῶν τειχῶν κατεσκεύαζον, ἄλλοι δὲ περὶ τὰσ ὁπλοποιίασ καὶ τὴν κατασκευὴν τῶν ὀξυβελῶν καταπελτῶν ἐγίνοντο, πᾶσα δ’ ἡ πόλισ ἐν ἔργοισ καθειστήκει διά τε τὴν προθυμίαν τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ διὰ τοὺσ προσδοκωμένουσ κινδύνουσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 70 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a making of arms

Related

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

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