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ποδοστράβη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποδοστράβη

Structure: ποδοστραβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a snare or trap to catch the feet

Declension

First 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

  • χρὴ δὲ εἶναι τὰσ ποδοστράβασ σμίλακοσ πεπλεγμένασ, μὴ περιφλοίουσ, ἵνα μὴ σήπωνται, τὰσ δὲ στεφάνασ εὐκύκλουσ ἐχούσασ, καὶ τοὺσ ἥλουσ ἐναλλὰξ σιδηροῦσ τε καὶ ξυλίνουσ ἐγκαταπεπλεγμένουσ ἐν τῷ πλοκάνῳ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 14:1)
  • ἱστάναι δὲ τὰσ ποδοστράβασ διελόντα τῆσ γῆσ βάθοσ πεντεπάλαστον, περιφερὲσ δὲ τοῦτο, καὶ ἄνωθεν ἴσον ταῖσ στεφάναισ τῶν ποδοστραβῶν, εἰσ δὲ τὸ κάτω ἀμειβόμενον στενότητι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 16:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὸν ὗν τὸν ἄγριον κεκτῆσθαι κύνασ Ἰνδικάσ, Κρητικάσ, Λοκρίδασ, Λακαίνασ, ἄρκυσ, ἀκόντια, προβόλια, ποδοστράβασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a snare or trap to catch the feet

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

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