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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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τοῖσ καταριθμηθεῖσι τόποισ ἐν τῇ χερρονήσῳ καὶ τὰ φρούρια ὑπῆρξεν, ἃ κατεσκεύασε Σκίλουροσ καὶ οἱ παῖδεσ, οἷσπερ καὶ ὁρμητηρίοισ ἐχρῶντο πρὸσ τοὺσ Μιθριδάτου στρατηγούσ, Παλάκιόν τε καὶ Χάβον καὶ Νεάπολισ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 4 14:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ὁρμητηρίοισ ἐχρήσαντο τοῖσ τόποισ πρὸσ τὰ λῃστήρια, αὐτοὶ πειρατεύοντεσ ἢ τοῖσ πειραταῖσ λαφυροπώλια καὶ ναύσταθμα παρέχοντεσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 3 4:3)
  • ὁρμητηρίοισ δ’ ἐρυμνοῖσ χρῶνται, καθάπερ οἱ τὸν Λίβανον ἔχοντεσ ἄνω μὲν ἐν τῷ ὄρει Σιννᾶν καὶ Βορραμὰ καὶ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα ἔχουσι τείχη, κάτω δὲ Βότρυν καὶ Γίγαρτον καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆσ θαλάττησ σπήλαια καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ Θεοῦ προσώπῳ φρούριον ἐπιτεθέν, ἃ κατέσπασε Πομπήιοσ, ἀφ’ ὧν τήν τε Βύβλον κατέτρεχον καὶ τὴν ἐφεξῆσ ταύτῃ Βηρυτόν, αἳ μεταξὺ κεῖνται Σιδῶνοσ καὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ προσώπου. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 36:5)

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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