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πυράγρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυράγρα

Structure: πυραγρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pair of fire-tongs

Declension

First 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

  • Οὔκ, ἀλλὰ τὸν Ἥφαιστον ἔδει τὸν σὸν υἱὸν οἰνοχοεῖν ἡμῖν χωλεύοντα, ἐκ τῆσ καμίνου ἥκοντα, ἔτι τῶν σπινθήρων ἀνάπλεων, ἄρτι τὴν πυράγραν ἀποτεθειμένον, καὶ ἀπ̓ ἐκείνων αὐτοῦ τῶν δακτύλων λαμβάνειν ἡμᾶσ τὴν κύλικα καὶ ἐπισπασαμένουσ γε φιλῆσαι μεταξύ, ὃν οὐδ̓ ἂν ἡ μήτηρ σὺ ἡδέωσ φιλήσειασ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀσβόλου κατῃθαλωμένον τὸ πρόσωπον. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 7:3)
  • Μὰ Δία, τὴν πυράγραν οὐχ ὁρῶ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:7)
  • Τοιγαροῦν ἀπέδωκέ σοι τὸν μισθόν, τὴν πυράγραν ‐ Εὖ γε ὑπέμνησασ· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 9:4)
  • καὶ δὴ καὶ ἄλλωσ ὁ τὰ ὅπλα διδοὺσ οὔτε τοὺσ πόδασ ἐστὶν ἐρρωμένοσ καὶ ὄπισθεν οἰκέτησ ἕπεταί οἱ πυράγραν ἔχων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 11:5)

Synonyms

  1. a pair of fire-tongs

Related

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

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