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ποδώκεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποδώκεια

Structure: ποδωκει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from podw/khs

Sense

  1. swiftness of foot

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐξέκλεψεν ἔλαφον ἀντιδοῦσά μου Ἄρτεμισ Ἀχαιοῖσ, διὰ δὲ λαμπρὸν αἰθέρα πέμψασά μ’ ἐσ τήνδ’ ᾤκισεν Ταύρων χθόνα, οὗ γῆσ ἀνάσσει βαρβάροισι βάρβαροσ Θόασ, ὃσ ὠκὺν πόδα τιθεὶσ ἴσον πτεροῖσ ἐσ τοὔνομ’ ἦλθε τόδε ποδωκείασ χάριν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 1:11)
  • καὶ γὰρ εἰ ἐπ’ ἀκροτάτῳ, ὅμωσ ἀπὸ πολὺ ἂν μείζονοσ ὕψουσ τῆσ ἀκροπόλεωσ ἐσκόπευεν ἐξ ἴσου σχεδόν τι διαστήματοσ, μὴ δεόμενοσ μηδὲν τῆσ ποδωκείασ τοῦ ἀσφαλοῦσ χάριν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 65:2)

Synonyms

  1. swiftness of foot

Related

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

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