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πέπλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέπλος πέπλου

Structure: πεπλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, funeral-urn, seat
  2. upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women
  3. peritoneum
  4. wartweed

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

  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ Ἑκάβη τὸ μὴ ἁλῶναι τὴν πόλιν τότε ἐπρίατο παρὰ τῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ βοῶν δώδεκα καὶ πέπλου. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 2:3)
  • εὐλογῆσαι βουλόμεσθα τοὺσ πατέρασ ἡμῶν, ὅτι ἄνδρεσ ἦσαν τῆσδε τῆσ γῆσ ἄξιοι καὶ τοῦ πέπλου, οἵτινεσ πεζαῖσ μάχαισιν ἔν τε ναυφάρκτῳ στρατῷ πανταχοῦ νικῶντεσ ἀεὶ τήνδ’ ἐκόσμησαν πόλιν· (Aristotle, Parabasis, epirrheme1)
  • καλῶσ γ’ ἐποίησε τοῦ πέπλου μεμνημένη. (Aristotle, Episode27)
  • ἱστορεῖται δὲ τῶν ἐν Ἰλίῳ πολλοῖσ καθ’ ὕπνον ὀφθῆναι τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ἱδρῶτι πολλῷ ῥεομένην καὶ ὑποφαίνουσάν τι τοῦ πέπλου παρερρωγόσ, λέγουσαν, ὡσ ἀρτίωσ ἥκοι βοηθήσασα Κυζικηνοῖσ. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 10 3:1)
  • εἶθαρ δὲ δόρυ χροὸσ ἀντετόρησεν ἀμβροσίου διὰ πέπλου, ὅν οἱ Χάριτεσ κάμον αὐταί, πρυμνὸν ὕπερ θέναροσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 38:7)

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