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ὀρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρεύς

Structure: ὀρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From o)/ros a mountain, mules being much used in mountainous countries.

Sense

  1. a mule

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

  • καὶ ὁ Σιμωνίδησ, ὅτε μὲν ἐδίδου μισθὸν ὀλίγον αὐτῷ ὁ νικήσασ τοῖσ ὀρεῦσιν, οὐκ ἤθελε ποιεῖν, ὡσ δυσχεραίνων εἰσ ἡμιόνουσ ποιεῖν, ἐπεὶ δ’ ἱκανὸν ἔδωκεν, ἐποίησε χαίρετ’ ἀελλοπόδων θύγατρεσ ἵππων· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 14:2)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐν τάχει τοῖσ τε ὀρεῦσιν καὶ τοῖσ ὑποζυγίοισ ἐπιθέντεσ τὴν ἀποσκευὴν ἑστᾶσιν ὥσπερ ἐφ’ ὕσπληγοσ ἐξορμᾶν ἕτοιμοι, ὑποπιμπρᾶσίν τε ἤδη τὴν παρεμβολὴν ὡσ αὐτοῖσ μὲν ὂν ῥᾴδιον ἐκεῖ πάλιν τειχίσασθαι, μὴ γένοιτο δ’ ἐκεῖνό ποτε τοῖσ πολεμίοισ χρήσιμον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 113:2)
  • τὸ δ’ οἰκετικὸν ἑκάστου τάγματοσ ἅπαν τοῖσ πεζοῖσ εἵπετο, τὰσ ἀποσκευὰσ τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὀρεῦσιν καὶ τοῖσ ὑποζυγίοισ ἄγοντεσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 155:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mule

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

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