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προκόμιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: προκόμιον προκόμιου

Structure: προκομι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ko/mh

Sense

  1. the forelock

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

  • τούσ τε Λυκίουσ ὁρῶν ἀγαπῶντασ τὸ τρίχωμα φορεῖν, ἔφησε γράμματα ἥκειν παρὰ βασιλέωσ, κόμασ ἀποστεῖλαι εἰσ προκόμια, προστετάχθαι οὖν αὐτῷ ὑπὸ Μαυσώλου ἀποκεῖραι αὐτούσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 52:1)
  • "τρυφῆσ, εἶθ’ ὕστερον ὕβρεωσ ἦλθον ὥστε πρῶτοι τὸ πρόσωπον ἐντριψάμενοι καὶ προκόμια περιθετά λαβόντεσ στολὰσ μὲν ἀνθινὰσ φορῆσαι, τὸ δὲ ἐργάσασθαι καὶ πονεῖν αἴσχιον νομίσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:25)
  • καὶ τὸ προκόμιον δὲ χρὴ βρέχειν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 7:3)
  • δέδοται δὲ παρὰ θεῶν καὶ ἀγλαί̈ασ ἕνεκεν ἵππῳ χαίτη, καὶ προκόμιον δὲ καὶ οὐρά. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 9:1)
  • ἄλλασ δὲ τὰ προκόμια ψιλοῦν ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ὥστ’ ἀποστίλβειν τοῦ μετώπου μᾶλλον· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 34:4)

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

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