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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

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

  • θεᾶσ γὰρ τῆσδε προστροπὴν ἔχω. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 5:3)
  • "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)
  • Πυλάδη, σταθῶμεν ἐκποδών, ὡσ ἂν σαφῶσ μάθω γυναικῶν ἥτισ ἥδε προστροπή. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a suppliant band

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

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