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ὀχλαγωγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀχλαγωγία

Structure: ὀχλαγωγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from o)xlagwgo/s

Sense

  1. mob-oratory

Declension

First 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

  • ὁ δὲ Πύρροσ εἰπὼν ὅτι ταῦτα μέν ἐστι πυλαϊκῆσ ὀχλαγωγίασ καὶ ἀσοφίαν ἔχοντα πολλήν, ἐκεῖνο δὲ δεῖ τὰ ὅπλα διὰ χειρῶν ἔχοντασ ὑποβάλλειν ἑαυτοῖσ, εἷσ οἰωνὸσ ἄριστοσ ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ Πύρρου, ἐξανέστη καὶ προσῆγεν ἅμ’ ἡμέρᾳ τὸν στρατόν. (Plutarch, chapter 29 2:2)

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

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