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πυλίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυλίς πυλίδος

Structure: πυλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pu/lh의 지소사

Sense

  1. a postern

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

  • ὁ δὲ Σερουίλιοσ ἔτι νυκτὸσ ἀπὸ τοῦ χάρακοσ ἀγωνισάμενοσ, ἐπεὶ δὲ φῶσ τε ἤδη ἐγένετο καὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἔμαθεν ἀτάκτωσ προνομεύοντασ, ἀνοῖξαι κελεύσασ πυλίδασ ἐκ τοῦ χάρακοσ ἀδήλωσ συχνάσ, ἀφ’ ἑνὸσ παραγγέλματοσ ἐφῆκεν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ τὸ στράτευμα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 29 5:1)
  • εἴκαζον δὲ οἱ πολλοί, καὶ δοκεῖ γενέσθαι, τοὺσ χαρίεντασ αὐτῷ τῶν πολιτῶν ὑπανοῖξαι πυλίδασ ἐλέῳ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ προμηθείᾳ τροφῶν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 9 9:2)
  • κατακληίσαντεσ γὰρ ἂν πάσασ τὰσ ἐσ τὸν ποταμὸν πυλίδασ ἐχούσασ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐπὶ τὰσ αἱμασιὰσ ἀναβάντεσ τὰσ παρὰ τὰ χείλεα τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐληλαμένασ, ἔλαβον ἂν σφέασ ὡσ ἐν κύρτῃ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 191 6:2)
  • οὐδενὸσ δὲ προσέχοντοσ αὐτοῖσ οὐδὲ συνεξισταμένου διὰ τὸ παράδοξον τῆσ ἐπιβολῆσ, ἐπιστρέψαντεσ ὡρ́μησαν πρὸσ τὴν ἄκραν, ὡσ ἀνασπάσοντεσ ταύτησ τὰσ πυλίδασ καὶ συγχρησόμενοι τοῖσ εἰσ τὴν φυλακὴν ἀπηγμένοισ τῶν ἀνδρῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 39 4:1)

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

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