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πύργωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πύργωμα πύργωματος

Structure: πυργωματ (Stem)

Etym.: purgo/w

Sense

  1. that which is furnished with towers, a fenced city, fenced walls

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

  • δύστηνε, κρατὸσ ὥσ σ’ ἔκειρεν ἀθλίωσ τείχη πατρῷα, Λοξίου πυργώματα, ὃν πόλλ’ ἐκήπευσ’ ἡ τεκοῦσα βόστρυχον φιλήμασίν τ’ ἔδωκεν, ἔνθεν ἐκγελᾷ ὀστέων ῥαγέντων φόνοσ, ἵν’ αἰσχρὰ μὴ λέγω. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:4)
  • κἀγὼ μὲν ἐνθάδ’ εἴμ’, ὁ δ’ ἄθλιοσ πόσισ στράτευμ’ ἀθροίσασ τὰσ ἐμὰσ ἀναρπαγὰσ θηρᾷ πορευθεὶσ Ἰλίου πυργώματα. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:7)
  • δύστηνε, κρατὸσ ὥσ σ1’ ἔκειρεν ἀθλίωσ τείχη πατρῷα, Λοξίου πυργώματα, ὃν πόλλ’ ἐκήπευσ1̓ ἡ τεκοῦσα βόστρυχον φιλήμασὶν τ’ ἔδωκεν · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 72 1:4)
  • ὦ ξυντέλεια, μὴ προδῷσ πυργώματα. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode7)
  • κατὰ γάρ μιν ἐρείπει πῦρ τε καὶ ὀξὺσ Ἄρησ, Συριηγενὲσ ἁρ́μα διώκων πολλὰ δὲ κἆλλ’ ἀπολεῖ πυργώματα, κοὐ τὸ σὸν οἰο͂ν πολλοὺσ δ’ ἀθανάτων ναοὺσ μαλερῷ πυρὶ δώσει, οἵ που νῦν ἱδρῶτι ῥεούμενοι ἑστήκασι, δείματι παλλόμενοι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 92 1:1)

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

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