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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

  • χρὴ δὲ μὴ μόνον τὸν λοχαγὸν τὸν κράτιστον τοῦ λόχου εἶναι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν οὐραγὸν οὐ πολύ τι ἀποδέοντα ἐπιλέγεσθαι· (Arrian, chapter 6 7:1)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τῆσ ὑπολοίπου τὸν οὐραγόν, κατὰ δὲ τὰσ πλευρὰσ τοῦ ῥόμβου τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ τῶν ἱππέων. (Arrian, chapter 16 8:1)
  • φάλαγγοσ τὸ πᾶν σύνταγμα, τῶν δ̓ ἐν μέρει ὁπλιτῶν ἕκαστον ἀνθ̓ οὗ πρότερον ἐπεῖχεν τόπου ἕτερον μεταλαμβάνειν, τὸν μὲν λοχαγὸν τὸν τοῦ οὐραγοῦ, τὸν δὲ οὐραγὸν τὸν τοῦ λοχαγοῦ, καὶ ἀντὶ τῆσ κατὰ πρόσωπον ἐπιφανείασ τὴν κατόπιν. (Arrian, chapter 23 6:1)

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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