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προστροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστροπή

Structure: προστροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: prostre/pw

Sense

  1. a turning oneself towards, for purification, the supplication, any address to a god, prayers, the duty of praying, the priestly office, a petition
  2. a suppliant band

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προστροπή προστροπᾱ́ προστροπαί
Genitive προστροπῆς προστροπαῖν προστροπῶν
Dative προστροπῇ προστροπαῖν προστροπαῖς
Accusative προστροπήν προστροπᾱ́ προστροπᾱ́ς
Vocative προστροπή προστροπᾱ́ προστροπαί

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

  • "λιταῖσ τισι καὶ προστροπαῖσ μετὰ δικαιολογίασ ἐκελεύσθη πορευθεὶσ ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ Τέττιγοσ οἴκησιν ἱλάσασθαι τὴν τοῦ Ἀρχιλόχου ψυχήν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 17 5:4)
  • θεοὺσ δὲ προστροπαῖσ ἱκνουμένη, εἴ τι φλαῦρον εἶδεσ, αἰτοῦ τῶνδ’ ἀποτροπὴν τελεῖν, τὰ δ’ ἀγάθ’ ἐκτελῆ γενέσθαι σοί τε καὶ τέκνοισ σέθεν καὶ πόλει φίλοισ τε πᾶσι. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees2)
  • ἦ καὶ πατήρ τι σφάλλεται βουλευμάτων πρωτοκτόνοισι προστροπαῖσ Ἰξίονοσ; (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 10:4)
  • ἐπιβληθεὶσ δὲ τὸ πρῶτον ὑπὸ τῆσ Πυθίασ ὡσ ἱερὸν ἄνδρα τῶν Μουσῶν ἀνῃρηκώσ, εἶτα χρησάμενοσ λιταῖσ τισι καὶ προστροπαῖσ μετὰ δικαιολογίασ ἐκελεύσθη πορευθεὶσ ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ τέττιγοσ οἴκησιν ἱλάσασθαι τὴν τοῦ Ἀρχιλόχου ψυχήν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section43)

Synonyms

  1. a suppliant band

Similar forms

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

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