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πολύσπαστον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύσπαστον πολυσπάστου

Structure: πολυσπαστ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. compound pulley

Declension

Second 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

  • θαυμάσαντοσ δὲ τοῦ Ιἕρωνοσ, καὶ δεηθέντοσ εἰσ ἔργον ἐξαγαγεῖν τὸ πρόβλημα καὶ δεῖξαί τι τῶν μεγάλων κινούμενον ὑπὸ σμικρᾶσ δυνάμεωσ, ὁλκάδα τριάρμενον τῶν βασιλικῶν πόνῳ μεγάλῳ καὶ χειρὶ πολλῇ νεωλκηθεῖσαν, ἐμβαλὼν ἀνθρώπουσ τε πολλοὺσ καὶ τὸν συνήθη φόρτον, αὐτὸσ ἄπωθεν καθήμενοσ, οὐ μετὰ σπουδῆσ, ἀλλὰ ἠρέμα τῇ χειρὶ σείων ἀρχήν τινα πολυσπάστου προσηγάγετο λείωσ καὶ ἀπταίστωσ καὶ ὥσπερ διὰ θαλάττησ ἐπιθέουσαν. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 14 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. compound pulley

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