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ὄχανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄχανον ὄχανου

Structure: ὀχαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)/xw

Sense

  1. the holder of a shield, a bar across the hollow of the shield

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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ τὰ κράνεα λόφουσ ἐπιδέεσθαι Κᾶρεσ εἰσὶ οἱ καταδέξαντεσ καὶ ἐπὶ τὰσ ἀσπίδασ τὰ σημήια ποιέεσθαι, καὶ ὄχανα ἀσπίσι οὗτοι εἰσὶ οἱ ποιησάμενοι πρῶτοι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 171 5:2)
  • ἐνθαῦτα ἀπικομένοισι τοῖσι ἐναντίοισι αὐτοῖσι ἐπιχυθέντασ νυκτὸσ μῦσ ἀρουραίουσ κατὰ μὲν φαγεῖν τοὺσ φαρετρεῶνασ αὐτῶν κατὰ δὲ τὰ τόξα, πρὸσ δὲ τῶν ἀσπίδων τὰ ὄχανα, ὥστε τῇ ὑστεραίῃ φευγόντων σφέων γυμνῶν πεσεῖν πολλούσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 141 6:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ περὶ τὰ στρατιωτικὰ ζήλου τά τε ὄχανα ποιοῦνται τεκμήρια καὶ τὰ ἐπίσημα καὶ τοὺσ λόφουσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 2 52:5)

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

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