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πλέθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλέθρον πλέθρου

Structure: πλεθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a plethron

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

  • Οὐλύμπου κορυφῆσ ἐπὶ Πυθίου Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἱερὸν ὕψοσ ἔχει, πρόσ κάθετον δὲ μέτρον, πλήρη μέν δεκάδα σταδίων μίαν, αὐτὰρ ἐπ’ αὐτῇ πλέθρον τετραπέδῳ λειπόμενον μεγέθει. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 15 6:1)
  • ὁ τοῦ πλέθρου ἀριθμὸσ καὶ τὸ πλέθρον ταὐτόν· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 378:4)
  • τούτου δὲ ὅσον πλέθρον δασὺ πίτυσι διαλειπούσαισ μεγάλαισ, ἀνθ’ ὧν ἑστηκότεσ ἄνδρεσ τί ἂν πάσχοιεν ἢ ὑπὸ τῶν φερομένων λίθων ἢ ὑπὸ τῶν κυλινδομένων; (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 7:2)
  • ἐκ τούτου οἱ μὲν ἥσυχοι προῆγον, ὁ δὲ τρεῖσ ἀφελὼν τὰσ τελευταίασ τάξεισ ἀνὰ διακοσίουσ ἄνδρασ τὴν μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ δεξιὸν ἐπέτρεψεν ἐφέπεσθαι ἀπολιπόντασ ὡσ πλέθρον· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 13:1)
  • καθ’ ἕκαστον μὲν οὖν στάδιον ἀρχιτέκτονασ ἐπέστησε, κατὰ δὲ πλέθρον ἐπέταξεν οἰκοδόμουσ, καὶ τοὺσ τούτοισ ὑπηρετήσοντασ ἐκ τῶν ἰδιωτῶν εἰσ ἕκαστον πλέθρον διακοσίουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 13 55:1)

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

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