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προβόλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: προβόλιον προβόλιου

Structure: προβολι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pro/bolos의 지소사 II

Sense

  1. a boar-spear

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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τὸν ὗν τὸν ἄγριον κεκτῆσθαι κύνασ Ἰνδικάσ, Κρητικάσ, Λοκρίδασ, Λακαίνασ, ἄρκυσ, ἀκόντια, προβόλια, ποδοστράβασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 2:1)
  • τὰ δὲ προβόλια πρῶτον μὲν λόγχασ ἔχοντα τὸ μὲν μέγεθοσ πεντεπαλάστουσ, κατὰ δὲ μέσον τὸν αὐλὸν κνώδοντασ ἀποκεχαλκευμένουσ, στιφρούσ, καὶ τὰσ ῥάβδουσ κρανείασ δορατοπαχεῖσ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 4:2)
  • ἐπειδὰν δ’ ἑστῶσιν, ἐλθόντασ πρὸσ τὰσ κύνασ λῦσαι ἁπάσασ καὶ λαβόντασ τὰ ἀκόντια καὶ τὰ προβόλια προιέναι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 9:1)
  • ἀποθνῄσκουσι δὲ κύνεσ πολλαὶ ἐν τῇ τοιαύτῃ θήρᾳ καὶ αὐτοὶ οἱ κυνηγέται κινδυνεύουσιν, ὅταν γε ἐν ταῖσ μεταδρομαῖσ ἀπειρηκότι ἀναγκάζωνται προσιέναι ἔχοντεσ τὰ προβόλια ἢ ἐν ὕδατι ὄντι ἢ ἐφεστῶτι πρὸσ ἀποκρήμνῳ ἢ ἐκ δασέοσ μὴ θέλοντι ἐξιέναι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 24:1)

Synonyms

  1. a boar-spear

Related

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

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