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ῥέθος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥέθος ῥέθεος

Structure: ῥεθο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a limb, the limbs, body
  2. the face, countenance

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

  • πάρεσ ἀπ’ ὀμμάτων πέπλον, ἀπόδικε, ῥέθοσ ἀελίῳ δεῖξον. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric2)
  • νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθοσ αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ’ εὐῶπα παρειάν. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode, anapests2)
  • καἰ μέν σευ τὸ κάλον τισ ἴδων ῥέθοσ αἰνέσαι, τῷ δ’ εὔθυσ πλέον ἢ τριέτησ ἐγένευ φίλοσ, τὸν πρῶτον δὲ φιλεῦντα τρίταιον ἐθήκαο. (Theocritus, Idylls, 12)
  • ᾗ γὰρ ἂν ὄμμα ῥίψῃσ, ὡσ ἰξῷ τοῦτο προσαμπέχεται, τῇ μὲν γὰρ Θεόδωροσ ἄγει ποτὶ πίονα σαρκὸσ ἀκμὴν καὶ γυίων ἄνθοσ ἀκηράσιον τῇ δὲ Φιλοκλῆοσ χρύσεον ῥέθοσ, ὃσ τὸ καθ’ ὕψοσ οὐ μέγασ, οὐρανίη δ’ ἀμφιτέθηλε χάρισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 932)
  • τὸ δ’ ἔμπαλιν, ἐσ τρίχασ ἥξοι γήραοσ, ἐσ ῥυτίδασ σκληρὸν ἵκοιτο ῥέθοσ τίσειαν πολιαὶ τάδε δάκρυα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2984)

Synonyms

  1. a limb

  2. the face

Related

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

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