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προμαχεών

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προμαχεών προμαχεῶνος

Structure: προμαχεων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a bulwark, rampart

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

  • πυργομαχοῦντεσ δὲ ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἐδύναντο λαβεῖν τὴν τύρσιν ὑψηλὴ γὰρ ἦν καὶ μεγάλη καὶ προμαχεῶνασ καὶ ἄνδρασ πολλοὺσ καὶ μαχίμουσ ἔχουσα, διορύττειν ἐπεχείρησαν τὸν πύργον. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 8 17:1)
  • δύο δὲ οἱ τελευταῖοί εἰσὶ ὃ μὲν καταργυρωμένουσ ὁ δὲ κατακεχρυσωμένουσ ἔχων τοὺσ προμαχεῶνασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 98 7:2)
  • ἀναβαίνοντεσ γὰρ ἐπὶ τοὺσ προμαχεῶνασ τοῦ τείχεοσ οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι κατωρχέοντο καὶ κατέσκωπτον Δαρεῖον καὶ τὴν στρατιὴν αὐτοῦ, καί τισ αὐτῶν εἶπε τοῦτο τὸ ἔποσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 151 2:2)

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

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