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ῥεῖθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥεῖθρον ῥεῖθρου

Structure: ῥειθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w

Sense

  1. that which flows, a river, stream, streams
  2. the bed or channel of a river

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

  • τούτουσ ἐτεκμαίροντο Καρχηδονίουσ εἶναι τῇ λαμπρότητι τῆσ σκευῆσ καὶ τῇ βραδυτῆτι καὶ τάξει τῆσ πορείασ, μετὰ δὲ τούτουσ τῶν λοιπῶν ἐθνῶν ἐπιρρεόντων καὶ τὴν διάβασιν μετ’ ὠθισμοῦ καὶ ταραχῆσ ποιουμένων, συνιδὼν ὁ Τιμολέων τὸν ποταμὸν αὐτοῖσ ταμιεύοντα τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν πολεμίων ἀπολαβεῖν ὅσοισ ἐθέλοιεν αὐτοὶ μάχεσθαι, καὶ τοὺσ στρατιώτασ καθορᾶν κελεύσασ τὴν φάλαγγα τῷ ῥείθρῳ διαλελυμένην καὶ τοὺσ μὲν ἤδη διαβεβηκότασ, τοὺσ δὲ μέλλοντασ, προσέταξε Δημαρέτῳ λαβόντι τοὺσ ἱππεῖσ ἐμβαλεῖν εἰσ τοὺσ Καρχηδονίουσ καὶ συνταράξαι τὸν διάκοσμον αὐτῶν τῆσ παρατάξεωσ οὔπω καθεστώσησ. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 27 3:1)
  • διαβαίνων δὲ ποταμὸν Ἄναυρον ἐξῆλθε μονοσάνδαλοσ, τὸ ἕτερον ἀπολέσασ ἐν τῷ ῥείθρῳ πέδιλον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 16:6)
  • νηῦσ δέ μοι ἥδ’ ἕστηκεν ἐπ’ ἀγροῦ νόσφι πόληοσ, ἐν λιμένι Ῥείθρῳ ὑπὸ Νηίῳ ὑλήεντι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 18:5)
  • πολλοὶ δὲ ἄνευ πολεμίασ πληγῆσ διεφθείροντο σωρευομένων τῶν σωμάτων διά τε τὸν φόβον καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ καὶ διὰ τὰσ ἐν τῷ ῥείθρῳ δυσχερείασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 80 3:1)
  • κατὰ νώτου γὰρ λαβεῖν τὸν ποταμόν, ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ ἐπιβάληται φεύγειν προδήλου τῆσ ἀπωλείασ οὔσησ τῶν διωκομένων ἐν τῷ τοῦ ποταμοῦ ῥείθρῳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 23 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. that which flows

Related

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

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