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ῥύαξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥύαξ ῥύακος

Structure: ῥυακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w

Sense

  1. a rushing stream, a torrent, a stream of lava

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

  • λέγεται γοῦν ἐν Σικελίᾳ εἰ γὰρ καὶ μυθωδέστερόν ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ ἁρμόσει καὶ ὑμῖν ἅπασι τοῖσ νεωτέροισ ἀκοῦσαι ἐκ τῆσ Αἴτνησ ῥύακα πυρὸσ γενέσθαι· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 128:1)
  • ἅπαξ μὲν τῶν ῥυάκων χάριν, ὅτε καὶ τῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ Διονυσίῳ συγγενόμενοσ ἐκινδύνευσεν, δὶσ δὲ πρὸσ τὸν νεώτερον Διονύσιον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 116 1:4)
  • τούτουσ δὲ πάντασ ὑπὸ γῆν εἰσ ἀλλήλουσ συντετρῆσθαί τε πολλαχῇ καὶ κατὰ στενότερα καὶ εὐρύτερα καὶ διεξόδουσ ἔχειν, ᾗ πολὺ μὲν ὕδωρ ῥεῖν ἐξ ἀλλήλων εἰσ ἀλλήλουσ ὥσπερ εἰσ κρατῆρασ, καὶ ἀενάων ποταμῶν ἀμήχανα μεγέθη ὑπὸ τὴν γῆν καὶ θερμῶν ὑδάτων καὶ ψυχρῶν, πολὺ δὲ πῦρ καὶ πυρὸσ μεγάλουσ ποταμούσ, πολλοὺσ δὲ ὑγροῦ πηλοῦ καὶ καθαρωτέρου καὶ βορβορωδεστέρου, ὥσπερ ἐν Σικελίᾳ οἱ πρὸ τοῦ ῥύακοσ πηλοῦ ῥέοντεσ ποταμοὶ καὶ αὐτὸσ ὁ ῥύαξ· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 896:1)
  • οὗτοσ δ’ ἐστὶν ὃν ἐπονομάζουσιν Πυριφλεγέθοντα, οὗ καὶ οἱ ῥύακεσ ἀποσπάσματα ἀναφυσῶσιν ὅπῃ ἂν τύχωσι τῆσ γῆσ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 907:2)
  • ὁ δὲ ῥύαξ εἰσ πῆξιν μεταβάλλων ἀπολιθοῖ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν τῆσ γῆσ ἐφ’ ἱκανὸν βάθοσ, ὥστε λατομίασ εἶναι χρείαν τοῖσ ἀνακαλύψαι βουλομένοισ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἐπιφάνειαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 6:25)

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

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