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ῥύσιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥύσιον ῥύσιου

Structure: ῥυσι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: r(u/omai

Sense

  1. that which is dragged away
  2. booty, prey
  3. that which is seized as a pledge, a pledge, surety
  4. that which is seized by way of reprisal, in reprisal
  5. offerings for deliverance

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

  • φόνον φόνου δὲ ῥύσιον τίσω τάλασ πρὸσ τοῦ δοκοῦντοσ οὐδὲν εἰδέναι κακόν. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:22)
  • καὶ μεῖζον ἆρα ῥύσιον πόλει τάχα θήσεισ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 3:7)
  • ἐλογίζετο γάρ, εἰ τῆσ πατρῴασ φιλίασ ἀμνημονέστεροσ ὁ Ἄραψ γένοιτο καὶ τοῦ δοῦναι δωρεὰν μικρολογώτεροσ, δανείσασθαι παρ’ αὐτοῦ τὰ λύτρα ῥύσιον θεὶσ τὸν τοῦ λυτρουμένου παῖδα· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 397:2)

Synonyms

  1. booty

  2. offerings for deliverance

Related

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

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