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ποίμνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποίμνη

Structure: ποιμν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a flock, of sheep

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

  • ἐπεί νυν ἐξήμαρτεσ ἐν σμικροῖσιν ὤν, ἔλθ’ ὡσ παλαιὸν τροφὸν ἐμοῦ φίλον πατρόσ, ὃσ ἀμφὶ ποταμὸν Τάναον Ἀργείασ ὁρ́ουσ τέμνοντα γαίασ Σπαρτιάτιδόσ τε γῆσ ποίμναισ ὁμαρτεῖ πόλεοσ ἐκβεβλημένοσ· (Euripides, episode 7:6)
  • ποίμναισ δ’ οὐχ ἱεί θαλερὰσ βοσκὰσ εὐφύλλων ἑλίκων, πόλεων δ’ ἀπέλειπε βίοσ· (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • τί δῆτα ποίμναισ τήνδ’ ἐπεμπίπτει βάσιν; (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:6)
  • οὔ ποτε γὰρ φρενόθεν γ’ ἐπ’ ἀριστερά, παῖ Τελαμῶνοσ, ἔβασ τόσσον, ἐν ποίμναισ πίτνων· (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • καὶ τοὺσ μὲν ηὐχένιζε, τοὺσ δ’ ἄνω τρέπων ἔσφαζε κἀρράχιζε, τοὺσ δὲ δεσμίουσ ᾐκίζεθ’ ὥστε φῶτασ ἐν ποίμναισ πίτνων. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. a flock

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

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