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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

  • καὶ παρῆσαν ἐξ Ἰλίου τινὲσ ἀπαγγέλλοντεσ ὦφθαι περὶ τὸν Ἀχαιῶν λιμένα τρισκαίδεκα πεντήρεισ τῶν βασιλικῶν ἐπὶ Λῆμνον πλεούσασ, εὐθὺσ οὖν ἀναχθείσ τούτουσ μὲν εἷλε καὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν αὐτῶν Ἰσίδωρον ἀπέκτεινεν, ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἔπλει πρωρέασ. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 12 2:2)
  • ἐπί τε πρῳρέασ καὶ κυβερνήτασ ἐσ Φοινίκην καὶ ἐσ Αἴγυπτον περιέπεμψεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 6:10)
  • καὶ τούτου τεκμήριον, ὅτι καὶ Θρᾷκασ καὶ Σκύθασ καὶ Σαυρομάτασ, οὔπω τινὶ πολεμῶν, ἐσ συμμαχίαν ὑπήγου, καὶ ἐσ τοὺσ ἀγχοῦ βασιλέασ περιέπεμπεσ, ναῦσ τε ἐποιοῦ, καὶ πρῳρέασ καὶ κυβερνήτασ συνεκάλεισ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 6:14)

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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