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πόρθησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόρθησις πόρθησεως

Structure: πορθησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from porqe/w

Sense

  1. the sack

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

  • ἦ γὰρ πατρῷον δῶμα πορθήσεισ τόδε; (Euripides, episode, iambic37)
  • Ῥωμαίοισ δὲ πρὸσ Φαλίσκουσ συνέστη πόλεμοσ καὶ μέγα μὲν οὐδὲν οὐδ’ ἄξιον μνήμησ ἐπετελέσθη, καταδρομαὶ δὲ καὶ πορθήσεισ τῆσ χώρασ τῶν Φαλίσκων ἐγίνοντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 30 14:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱ δυστυχεῖσ Ιοὐδαῖοι μὴ δυνάμενοι τὰσ ὑπὸ τῶν λῃστῶν γινομένασ πορθήσεισ ὑπομένειν ἠναγκάζοντο τῶν ἰδίων ἠθῶν ἐξανιστάμενοι φεύγειν ἅπαντεσ, ὡσ κρεῖττον ὁπουδήποτε παρὰ τοῖσ ἀλλοφύλοισ κατοικήσοντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 20 316:2)

Synonyms

  1. the sack

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

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