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οὐραγός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὐραγός οὐραγοῦ

Structure: οὐραγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(ge/omai

Sense

  1. leader of the rear-guard

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

  • κατόπιν δὲ πάντων [τῶν ταγμάτων] ὁ μίσθιοσ ὄχλοσ, οἷσ οὐραγοὶ πρὸσ ἀσφάλειαν ἠκολούθουν πεζοί τε καὶ ὁπλῖται καὶ τῶν ἱππέων συχνοί. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 156:1)
  • τὸ δ’ οἰκετικὸν ἑκάστου τάγματοσ ὀπίσω καὶ πρὸ τούτων τὰ σκευοφόρα, τελευταῖοι δὲ πάντων οἱ μίσθιοι καὶ τούτων φύλακεσ οὐραγοί. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 58:1)

Synonyms

  1. leader of the rear-guard

Related

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

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