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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

  • πόρθησισ γὰρ ἦν τὰ γινόμενα τῆσ πόλεωσ, τῶν μὲν ἀνδρῶν φονευομένων, τῶν δὲ τειχῶν κατασκαπτομένων, γυναικῶν δὲ καὶ παίδων ἀγομένων εἰσ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν μετ’ οἰμωγῆσ, ἀπεγνωκότων δὲ τὰ πράγματα τῶν στρατηγῶν καὶ χρῆσθαι μὴ δυναμένων τοῖσ πολίταισ πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἀναπεφυρμένουσ καὶ συμμεμιγμένουσ αὐτοῖσ πανταχόθεν. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 41 3:1)
  • ὦ παιδιὰ μὲν Ἰλίου πόρθησισ, παιδιὰ δὲ Ἀθηναίων ἐν Σικελίᾳ συμφοραὶ καὶ κατασκαφαὶ Θηβῶν, καὶ στρατευμάτων ὄλεθροι καὶ πόλεων δύσεισ, καὶ πάνθ’ ὅσα πῦρ καὶ πόλεμοι καὶ σεισμοὶ μέχρι τοῦδε ἀπειργάσαντο. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:2)
  • τί οὖν ἄλλο πόρθησισ ἢ τὸ κρατεῖσθαι τοῖσ ὅπλοισ; (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 6:5)

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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