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προκόλπιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: προκόλπιον προκόλπιου

Structure: προκολπι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a robe falling over the breast

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

  • τοιαῦτα γὰρ ἀμέλει καὶ αὐτὸσ ἀκούων τῶν ποιητῶν ᾀδόντων ἤλπιζον, εἴ ποτε γενοίμην ἐπὶ τῷ Ἠριδανῷ, ὑπελθὼν μίαν τῶν αἰγείρων ἐκπετάσασ τὸ προκόλπιον ὑποδέξεσθαι τῶν δακρύων ὀλίγα, ὡσ ἤλεκτρον ἔχοιμι. (Lucian, Electrum, (no name) 1:2)
  • τοιαῦτα παρὰ σοῦ ἀπειλήφαμεν ἀνθ’ ὧν σοι τὸν λειμῶνα ἐκεῖνον ἀναπετάσαντεσ οὐκ ἐκωλύομεν δρέπεσθαι καὶ τὸ προκόλπιον ἐμπλησάμενον ἀπελθεῖν ὥστε διά γε τοῦτο μάλιστα δίκαιοσ ἂν εἰήσ ἀποθανεῖν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 7:3)
  • " μειρακίου ἐπιδεικνυμένου πληρώσασ τὸ προκόλπιον θέρμων ἀντικρὺ ἔκαπτε· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 29:4)

Related

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

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