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παράφραγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράφραγμα παράφραγματος

Structure: παραφραγματ (Stem)

Etym.: from parafra/ssw

Sense

  1. a breastwork on the top of a mound, the bulwarks, a low screen

Declension

Third 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

  • πολὺσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλοσ ἀστῶν τε καὶ ξένων ἐγίγνετο φόνοσ, οὐ προβεβουλευμένοσ, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂σ ἐκ θορύβου πολιτικοῦ καὶ ἀγνωσίασ τῶν ἐπιλαβόντων, οἵ τε γὰρ μονομάχοι, ὡπλισμένοι ἑώθεν ὡσ ἐπὶ δή τινα θέασ ἐπίδειξιν, ἐκ τοῦ θεάτρου διέθεον ἐσ τὰ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου παραφράγματα, καὶ τὸ θέατρον ὑπὸ ἐκπλήξεωσ σὺν φόβῳ καὶ δρόμῳ διελύετο, τά τε ὤνια ἡρπάζετο· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 17 1:2)
  • πρόσθεν μόνον ὁρᾶν, κύκλῳ δὲ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ὑπὸ τοῦ δεσμοῦ ἀδυνάτουσ περιάγειν, φῶσ δὲ αὐτοῖσ πυρὸσ ἄνωθεν καὶ πόρρωθεν καόμενον ὄπισθεν αὐτῶν, μεταξὺ δὲ τοῦ πυρὸσ καὶ τῶν δεσμωτῶν ἐπάνω ὁδόν, παρ’ ἣν ἰδὲ τειχίον παρῳκοδομημένον, ὥσπερ τοῖσ θαυματοποιοῖσ πρὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρόκειται τὰ παραφράγματα, ὑπὲρ ὧν τὰ θαύματα δεικνύασιν. (Plato, Republic, book 7 4:1)

Similar forms

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

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