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πυρσός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρσός πυρσοῦ

Structure: πυρς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. a firebrand, torch, fires, the fires of love
  2. a beacon or signal-fire, bale-fire
  3. watch-fires

Declension

Second 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

  • ἀρθέντοσ οὖν τοῦ πυρσοῦ μηδέπω τῆσ στρατιᾶσ οὔσησ ἑτοίμησ, ἀναλαβὼν ὅσον τριάκοντα περὶ αὑτὸν ἐπείγετο δρόμῳ πρὸσ τὰ τείχη, τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἕπεσθαι κατὰ τάχοσ κελεύσασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 30 2:3)
  • ὥσπερ δὲ τῶν πλεόντων οἱ τοῦ πυρσοῦ μὴ διαμαρτάνοντεσ, οὗτοι μάλιστα σῴζονται καὶ τοὺσ λιμένασ εὑρίσκουσιν, οὕτωσ οἱ κατὰ τὸν νόμον ζῶντεσ ἀσφαλέστατα πορεύονται διὰ τοῦ βίου καὶ τῆσ καταγωγῆσ τῆσ δεούσησ τυγχάνουσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a firebrand

  2. a beacon or signal-fire

  3. watch-fires

Related

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

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