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πόρπαξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόρπαξ πόρπακος

Structure: πορπακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the handle
  2. part of a horse's headgear

Declension

Third 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

  • ὡσ ἡδὺσ ἐν πόρπακι σῷ κεῖται τύποσ ἴτυόσ τ’ ἐν εὐτόρνοισι περιδρόμοισ ἱδρώσ, ὃν ἐκ μετώπου πολλάκισ πόνουσ ἔχων ἔσταζεν Ἕκτωρ προστιθεὶσ γενειάδι. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:14)
  • ἃ γὰρ καθήσειν ὅπλ’ ἔμελλεν εἰσ ἅλα, ταῦτ’ ἐμβαλὼν πόρπακι γενναίαν χέρα αὐτὸσ κομίζει δόρυ τε δεξιᾷ λαβών, ὡσ τῷ θανόντι χάριτα δὴ συνεκπονῶν. (Euripides, Helen, episode5)

Synonyms

  1. the handle

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

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