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ὁρμητήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁρμητήριον ὁρμητήριου

Structure: ὁρμητηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: o(rma/w

Sense

  1. any means of stirring up or rousing, a stimulant, incentive
  2. a starting place, military position, base of operations, point d' appui

Declension

Second 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

  • μηχανώμενον ἐν αὐτοῖσ καὶ παρασκευαζόμενον ὁρμητήρια καὶ καταφυγὰσ καὶ θήρατρα πάλιν αὖ τοῖσ ἁλωσομένοισ καὶ ἀποδράσεισ τῶν ἐπιτιθεμένων; (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 3 17:1)
  • καὶ ναῦσ ἔλαβε τὰσ μὲν ἁλούσασ μίαν καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα, τὰσ δὲ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν παραδοθείσασ ἓξ καὶ τριακοσίασ, πόλεισ δὲ καὶ φρούρια καὶ ὁρμητήρια ἄλλα αὐτῶν ἐσ εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 5:9)
  • Φαρνάκην δὲ ἀπαλλάξαντα πόνου πολλοῦ τὴν Ἰταλίαν φίλον καὶ σύμμαχον Ῥωμαίοισ ἐποιήσατο, καὶ βασιλεύειν ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ Βοσπόρου, χωρὶσ Φαναγορέων, οὓσ ἐλευθέρουσ καὶ αὐτονόμουσ ἀφῆκεν, ὅτι πρῶτοι μάλιστα οἵδε ἀναρρωννυμένῳ τῷ Μιθριδάτῃ, καὶ ναῦσ καὶ στρατὸν ἄλλον καὶ ὁρμητήρια ἔχοντι, ἐπεχείρησαν, ἡγεμόνεσ τε τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀποστάσεωσ ἐγένοντο, καὶ Μιθριδάτῃ καταλύσεωσ αἴτιοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 7:4)
  • κατεῖχε <δὲ> καὶ τρεῖσ πόλεισ φρουραῖσ ὁρμητήρια εἶναί οἱ κατὰ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ, καὶ ὠνόμαζε δὲ ὑπὸ τῆσ ὕβρεωσ καὶ τῆσ ἐσ τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν ὑπεροψίασ κλεῖσ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ τὰσ πόλεισ ταύτασ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 8:1)
  • εὔνοιαν, ἐσήγαγε δὲ ἐσ αὐτὰ καὶ φρουράσ, ὁρμητήρια ἐπὶ τὴν Σπάρτην Ἀχαιοῖσ εἶναι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a starting place

Related

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

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