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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

  • ἄλλοι δὲ δύο ἕνα τινὰ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἀσπίδοσ κατακείμενον, βασιλέα δῆθεν καὶ αὐτόν, σύρουσι τῶν ὀχάνων τῆσ ἀσπίδοσ ἐπειλημμένοι· (Lucian, Herodotus 9:6)
  • τέωσ δὲ ἄνευ ὀχάνων ἐφόρεον τὰσ ἀσπίδασ πάντεσ οἳ περ ἐώθεσαν ἀσπίσι χρᾶσθαι, τελαμῶσι σκυτίνοισι οἰηκίζοντεσ, περὶ τοῖσι αὐχέσι τε καὶ τοῖσι ἀριστεροῖσι ὤμοισι περικείμενοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 171 5:3)
  • κύκλου παραμηκεστέρου καὶ οὐκ ἐσ τὸ ἀκριβέστατον περιφεροῦσ εἰσιν ἥμισυ, πεποίηται δὲ ὡσ καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ τῶν χειρῶν διιέναι καθάπερ δι’ ὀχάνων ἀσπίδοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 6:2)

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

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