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πατά?

; Transliteration: pata

Principal Part: πατά

Etym.: = κτείνω

Sense

Examples

  • περιωδευμένων δὲ τῶν τοῦ, κόσμου μερῶν, διαβήσομαι πρὸς τὰ, πατὰ μέρος. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, chapter intro1)
  • οἰὸρ γὰρ καλέουσι ἄνδρα, τὸ δὲ πατὰ κτείνειν, τότε λόγος τοὐς Ἕλληνας νικήσαντας τῇ ἐπὶ Θερμώδοντι μάχη ἀποπλέειν ἄγοντας τρισὶ πλοίοισι τῶν Ἀμαζόνων ὅσας ἐδυνέατο ζωγρῆσαι, τὰς δὲ ἐν τῷ πελάγει ἐπιθεμένας ἐκκόψαι τοὺς ἄνδρας.? (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 110 1:3)

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

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