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πειρατήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πειρατήριον

Structure: πειρατηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = pei=ra

Sense

  1. ordeal
  2. a pirate's nest

Declension

Second 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

  • ταῦτ’ ἔστ’ ἐκείνων νῦν τρόπων πεπαίτερα, καὶ τοῖσδε θηρῶν ἐκπύθοιο μᾶλλον ἂν ἀλκασμάτων δειλῆσ τε πειρατηρίων νύμφησ· (Sophocles, Ichneutae 21:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τῶν συνεστώτων ἔτι καὶ πλανωμένων ἔξω πειρατηρίων ἐνίοισ δεηθεῖσιν ἐπιεικῶσ ἐχρήσατο καὶ παραλαβὼν τὰ πλοῖα καὶ τὰ σώματα κακὸν οὐδὲν ἐποίησεν, ἐπ’ ἐλπίδοσ χρηστῆσ οἱ λοιποὶ γενόμενοι τοὺσ μὲν ἄλλουσ διέφευγον ἡγεμόνασ, Πομπηϊῴ δὲ φέροντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ μετὰ τέκνων καὶ γυναικῶν ἐνεχείριζον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 27 4:1)
  • δευτέρα γάρ τισ ἦν αὕτη τῶν πειρατηρίων πηγὴ μετὰ τὴν ἐν Κιλικίᾳ· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 29 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. a pirate's nest

Related

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

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