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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

  • ποιήσαντα δὲ ταῦτα ἐπὶ μὲν τὸ βάθοσ τὴν ποδοστράβην ἐπιθεῖναι κατωτέρω ἰσόπεδον, περὶ δὲ τὴν στέγην τὸν βρόχον τῆσ σειρίδοσ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 17:1)
  • ἐπειδὰν δὲ εὑρ́ῃ ἀνεστραμμένην τὴν ποδοστράβην, μεταθεῖν ἐπιλύσαντα τὰσ κύνασ καὶ ἐπικελεύσαντα κατὰ τὸν ὁλκὸν τοῦ ξύλου, σκοπούμενον ὅποι ἂν φέρηται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 20:1)

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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