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πρῳρεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρῳρεύς πρῳρέως

Structure: πρῳρευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: prw=|ra

Sense

  1. the officer in command at the bow, the look-out man

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

  • οὑτοσὶ δ’ ὁ κοινωνὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ συνεργὸσ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον εὐθὺσ ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ παρὰ τἀδικήματα, ὡσ οὐδὲν εἰδώσ, ἀλλ’ ἐκπεπληγμένοσ καὶ αὐτόσ, ἔπειθεν τὸν πρῳρέα καὶ τοὺσ ναύτασ εἰσ τὸν λέμβον ἐκβαίνειν καὶ ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν ναῦν τὴν ταχίστην, ὡσ ἀνελπίστου τῆσ σωτηρίασ οὔσησ καὶ καταδυσομένησ τῆσ νεὼσ αὐτίκα μάλα, ἵν’, ὅπερ διενοήθησαν, τοῦτ’ ἐπιτελεσθείη καὶ ἡ ναῦσ ἀπόλοιτο καὶ τὰ συμβόλαι’ ἀποστερήσαιεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 11:1)
  • καὶ ὁ βασιλεύσ, οὐδὲν τότε φροντίζειν ὑποκρινάμενοσ, τὸν κυβερνήτην ὕστερον ἐκόλασε καὶ τὸν πρῳρέα, καὶ Χίοισ ἐμήνισε πᾶσιν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 4:7)
  • φιλόχοροσ δὲ παρὰ Σκίρου φησὶν ἐκ Σαλαμῖνοσ τὸν Θησέα λαβεῖν κυβερνήτην μὲν Ναυσίθοον, πρωρέα δὲ Φαίακα, μηδέπω τότε τῶν Ἀθηναίων προσεχόντων τῇ θαλάττῃ· (Plutarch, chapter 17 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. the officer in command at the bow

Related

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

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