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πομπός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πομπός πομποῦ

Structure: πομπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/mpw

Sense

  1. a conductor, escort, guide, attendants, guards, a conductress
  2. conveyor, carrier of
  3. a messenger, one who is sent for
  4. the conducting, missive

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

  • πομπὸσ δ’ εἶμ’ ἐγὼ σωτήριοσ, κεῖθεν δ’ ἀπάξει σ’ ἄλλοσ. (Euripides, episode 1:19)
  • ἐπεὶ θεράπνασ τῆσδε Θηβαίασ χθονὸσ λιπόντεσ ἐξέβημεν Ἀσωποῦ ῥοάσ, λέπασ Κιθαιρώνειον εἰσεβάλλομεν Πενθεύσ τε κἀγώ‐‐δεσπότῃ γὰρ εἱπόμην‐‐ ξένοσ θ’ ὃσ ἡμῖν πομπὸσ ἦν θεωρίασ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἑρ́πε, καὶ φύλασσε πρῶτα μὲν νόμον, τὸ μὴ ’πιθυμεῖν πομπὸσ ὢν περισσὰ δρᾶν· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 2:5)
  • ἡμῖν δὲ πομπὸσ ἴσθι τῶν ἐσθλῶν ἄνω, σὺν θεοῖσι καὶ γῇ καὶ δίκῃ νικηφόρῳ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 4:3)
  • ἆρ’ ἄν τισ αὐτῷ πομπὸσ ἐξ ὑμῶν μόλοι; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:31)

Synonyms

  1. a conductor

  2. a messenger

Related

Similar forms

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

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