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ὄχθη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄχθη

Structure: ὀχθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a rising ground, a bank, dyke, the raised banks of a river, the banks, the dunes or denes

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

  • καί σε Νυσαίων ὀρέων κισσήρεισ ὄχθαι χλωρά τ’ ἀκτὰ πολυστάφυλοσ πέμπει, ἀμβρότων ἐπέων εὐαζόντων Θηβαί̈ασ ἐπισκοποῦντ’ ἀγυιάσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • νῦν γε μὰν ταί θ’ ὑπὲρ Κύμασ ἁλιερκέεσ ὄχθαι Σικελία τ’ αὐτοῦ πιέζει στέρνα λαχνάεντα· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 6:2)
  • πολλὰ μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῦ ὁρᾶται βαθέα, αἱ δὲ ὄχθαι αὗται ὁρᾷσ ὅτι ὑπερύψηλοι καὶ κρημνώδεισ εἰσὶν αἳ αὐτῶν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 13 3:5)
  • Κτησίασ μὲν δή, εἰ δή τῳ ἱκανὸσ καὶ Κτησίασ ἐσ τεκμηρίωσιν, ἵνα μὲν στενότατοσ αὐτὸσ αὑτοῦ ὁ Ἰνδόσ ἐστι, τεσσαράκοντα σταδίουσ λέγει ὅτι διέχουσιν αὐτῷ αἱ ὄχθαι, ἵνα δὲ πλατύτατοσ, καὶ ἑκατόν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 4 2:2)
  • αἵ τε ὄχθαι, ὑψηλότεραι τῶν νεῶν πολλαχῇ οὖσαι, ἐσ στενόν τε τὴν βοὴν ξυνάγουσαι καὶ τῇ ξυναγωγῇ αὐτῇ ἐπὶ μέγα ηὐξημένην ἐσ ἀλλήλασ ἀντέπεμπον, καί που καὶ νάπαι ἑκατέρωθεν τοῦ ποταμοῦ τῇ τε ἐρημίᾳ καὶ τῇ ἀντιπέμψει τοῦ κτύπου καὶ αὗται ξυνεπελάμβανον· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 3 3:2)

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

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