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πολιορκία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιορκία

Structure: πολιορκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a besieging, siege
  2. a besieging, pestering

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

  • ἅμα δὲ τούτοισ πραττομένοισ κατὰ μὲν τὴν Ἰταλίαν Ῥωμαίων διαπολεμούντων τὸν πρὸσ Σαμνίτασ πόλεμον συνεχεῖσ ἐγίνοντο προνομαὶ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ πολιορκίαι πόλεων καὶ δυνάμεων ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ στρατοπεδεῖαι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 101 1:1)
  • μάχαι δὲ καὶ ἀκροβολίαι καὶ πολιορκίαι καὶ πολέμων ἰδέαι πᾶσαι κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἀθρόαι τε καὶ κατὰ μέρη τοῖσ στρατηγοῖσ ἐγένοντο πολλαί, καὶ πᾶσαι διαφανεῖσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 9 9:6)
  • αἱ μὲν γὰρ τῶν πόλεων πολιορκίαι καὶ παρατάξεισ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον προτερήματα τὰ πλείονα διὰ τύχην ἢ δι’ ἀρετὴν ἐπιτυγχάνεται, ὁ δ’ ἐν ταῖσ ἐξουσίαισ εἰσ τοὺσ ἐπταικότασ ἔλεοσ μεριζόμενοσ διὰ μόνησ τῆσ φρονήσεωσ γίνεται. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 38 5:1)

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

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