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πιθών

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πιθών πιθῶνος

Structure: πιθων (Stem)

Etym.: pi/qos

Sense

  1. a cellar

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

  • ἐὰν δὲ σύζυγον λάβω τινὰ καὶ σύκινον, τοῦτον τὸν ἰσχυρὸν θεὸν ἐγὼ ποιήσω τήμερον δοῦναι δίκην, ὁτιὴ καταλύει περιφανῶσ εἶσ ὢν μόνοσ τὴν δημοκρατίαν, οὔτε τὴν βουλὴν πιθὼν τὴν τῶν πολιτῶν οὔτε τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:54)
  • ἁπλοῦν ἂν ἦν γὰρ τὸ κακόν, εἰ παρ’ εὐγενοῦσ μητρόσ, πιθών σε, σὴν λέγων ἀπαιδίαν, ἐσῴκισ’ οἴκουσ· (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic 3:3)
  • λάθρᾳ γὰρ ἦλθεν οὐ πιθὼν τοὺσ κυρίουσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:11)
  • ἐν δ’ ἄρα μηλοδόκῳ Πυθῶνι τόσσαισ ἀί̈εν ναοῦ βασιλεὺσ Λοξίασ, κοινᾶνι παρ’ εὐθυτάτῳ γνώμαν πιθών, πάντα ἰσάντι νόῳ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 8:4)
  • Φανόδημοσ δὲ πρὸσ τῷ ἱερῷ φησι τοῦ ἐν Λίμναισ Διονύσου τὸ γλεῦκοσ φέροντασ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ ἐκ τῶν πίθων τῷ θεῷ κιρνάναι, εἶτ’ αὐτοὺσ προσφέρεσθαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 13 2:1)
  • ἅμαξαι δὲ παμπληθεῖσ, αἱ μὲν ἁλουργοῖσ καὶ ποικίλοισ περιβολαίοισ, αἱ δ’ ὕλησ ἀεὶ προσφάτου καὶ χλωρᾶσ σκιαζόμεναι κλάδοισ, εἵποντο τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἄγουσαι φίλουσ καὶ ἡγεμόνασ ἐστεφανωμένουσ καὶ πίνοντασ, εἶδεσ δ’ ἂν οὐ πέλτην, οὐ κράνοσ, οὐ σάρισαν, ἀλλὰ φιάλαισ καὶ ῥυτοῖσ καὶ θηρικλείοισ παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ἅπασαν οἱ στρατιῶται βαπτίζοντεσ ἐκ πίθων μεγάλων καὶ κρατήρων ἀλλήλοισ προέπινον, οἱ μὲν ἐν τῷ προάγειν ἅμα καὶ βαδίζειν, οἱ δὲ κατακείμενοι. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 67 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a cellar

Derived

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

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