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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

  • παραστάτησ δὲ πᾶσ ὁ συζυγῶν ὀνομάζεται, λοχαγὸσ μὲν ὁ πρῶτοσ τῷ δευτέρῳ λοχαγῷ, ἐπιστάτησ δὲ ὁ πρῶτοσ τῷ δευτέρῳ ἐπιστάτῃ, καὶ τοῦτο ἐφεξῆσ ἔστε ἐπὶ τοὺσ οὐραγοὺσ τῶν λόχων. (Arrian, chapter 7 2:3)
  • τὸ δὲ κατόπιν τοῦ μετώπου ἅπαν ἔστε ἐπὶ τοὺσ οὐραγούσ, βάθοσ ὀνομάζεται. (Arrian, chapter 8 4:1)
  • ἐπιστάταισ συζυγεῖν καλοῦσι, στοιχεῖν δὲ τὸ κατὰ βάθοσ ἐπ̓ εὐθείασ εἶναι τοὺσ οὐραγοὺσ καὶ λοχαγούσ. (Arrian, chapter 8 6:1)
  • τοὺσ δὲ οὐραγοὺσ οὐχ οὕτω τι κατ̓ ἀλκὴν ὡσ κατὰ σύνεσιν καὶ ἐμπειρίαν τῶν πολεμικῶν ἐπιλέκτουσ χρὴ εἶναι, ὡσ ἐπιμέλεσθαι τοῦ στοιχεῖν τὰ ζυγὰ καὶ τοῖσ ἐθελοκακοῦσι μὴ ἐφιέναι ἀποδιδράσκειν ἔξω τῆσ τάξεωσ. (Arrian, chapter 12 17:1)
  • διφαλαγγία δὲ ἀμφίστομοσ, ἥτισ ἐν τῇ πορείᾳ τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ ἄχει ἐξ ἑκατέρων τῶν μερῶν ἐν παραγωγαῖσ τεταγμένουσ, τοὺσ μὲν ἐν δεξιᾷ παραγωγῇ, τοὺσ δὲ ἐν εὐωνύμῳ, τοὺσ δὲ οὐραγοὺσ ἔσω τεταγμένουσ· (Arrian, chapter 29 3:1)

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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