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πρυμνόθεν?

Adverb; Transliteration: prymnothen

Principal Part: πρυμνόθεν

Sense

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Examples

  • ὦ Ζεῦ τε καὶ Γῆ καὶ πολισσοῦχοι θεοί, Ἀρά τ Ἐρινὺς πατρὸς ἡ μεγασθενής, μή μοι πόλιν γε πρυμνόθεν πανώλεθρον ἐκθαμνίσητε δῃάλωτον, Ἑλλάδος φθόγγον χέουσαν, καὶ δόμους ἐφεστίους: (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 4:14)
  • ὦ μεγάλαυχοι καὶ φθερσιγενεῖς Κῆρες Ἐρινύες, αἵτ Οἰδιπόδα γένος ὠλέσατε πρυμνόθεν οὕτως, τί πάθω· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode, anapests2)
  • νῆα δ ὁμοῦ ζέφυρός τε καὶ ἠχῆεν φέρε κῦμα πρυμνόθεν ὀρνύμενον: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 15:13)
  • ἡ δ ὑπὸ νυκτὶ ῥιπῇσιν μὲν πρῶτα τινάσσεται, ὕστερον αὖτε πρυμνόθεν ἐξαγεῖσα κατήριπεν: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 27:19)

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

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