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πρότονοι?

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: protonoi

Principal Part: πρότονοι

Sense

  1. ropes from the masthead to the forepart of a ship, the forestays
  2. sail-ropes, braces.

Examples

  • ἀέρι δὲ ἱστία πρότονοι κατὰ πρῷραν ὑ- πὲρ στόλον ἐκπετάσουσι πόδα ναὸς ὠκυπόμπου. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 24)

Synonyms

  1. sail-ropes

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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