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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

  • πρωτοστατῶν ἐν μέσῳ λοχαγοῦ τε καὶ οὐραγοῦ συντεταγμένοσ. (Arrian, chapter 6 9:1)
  • 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)
  • ἢ ὁπόταν ὁ μὲν οὐραγὸσ μεταβάλληται, ὁ δὲ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ τεταγμένοσ ἐκ δόρατοσ τοῦ οὐραγοῦ παραπορευόμενοσ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ τάσσηται, καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ὡσαύτωσ ἄλλοσ πρὸσ ἄλλου ταχθεὶσ τὸν λοχαγὸν αὖ πρωτοστάτην ποιήσωνται. (Arrian, chapter 24 4:2)
  • χόριοσ δ̓ ἐξελιγμὸσ γίγνεται, ἐπειδὰν ὁ λοχαγὸσ μεταβαλλόμενοσ ἐπὶ δόρυ προϊῄ ἐπὶ τοῦ λόχου, ἔστ̓ ἂν κατάσχῃ τὸν τοῦ οὐραγοῦ τόπον, ὁ δὲ οὐραγὸσ τὸν τοῦ λοχαγοῦ. (Arrian, chapter 24 5:1)

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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