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παραφυλακή?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: paraphylakē

Principal Part: παραφυλακή

Structure: παραφυλακ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a guard, watch, garrison

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

  • κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἄκραν ταύτην ἦσαν καταλύσεις βασιλικαὶ καὶ στρατηγικαὶ πλείους πολυτελεῖς ταῖς κατασκευαῖς καὶ θησαυροὶ πρὸς τὴν τῶν χρημάτων παραφυλακὴν εὐθέτως κατεσκευασμένοι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 71 10:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα προορώμενοι τὰς ἐν αὑτοῖς στάσεις καὶ τὰς ὑπ Αἰτωλῶν καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπιβουλάς, πρεσβεύσαντες πρὸς τοὺς Ἀχαιοὺς ἠξίωσαν δοῦναι παραφυλακὴν αὑτοῖς. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 58 1:2)
  • οὕτως ἀποστείλαντες τὴν παραφυλακὴν καὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως οἱ Κυναιθεῖς διελύσαντο καὶ κατήγαγον τοὺς φυγάδας, ὄντας σχεδὸν εἰς τριακοσίους, λαβόντες πίστεις τῶν παρ ἀνθρώποις νομιζομένων τὰς ἰσχυροτάτας. (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 17 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a guard

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

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