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σαύνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαύνιον

Structure: σαυνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: Foreign word.

Sense

  1. a javelin

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

  • οἱ δὲ ἱππέεσ αὐτοῖσιν ἀκόντια δύο ἔχουσιν, οἱᾶ τὰ σαύνια ἀκόντια, καὶ πέλτην σμικροτέρην τῶν πεζῶν. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 16 10:1)
  • θηρεύουσι δὲ σαύνια ἀφ’ ἵππων βάλλοντεσ καὶ τοξεύματα καὶ σφενδονῶντεσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 36:6)
  • πέμπτη δ’ ἐκαλεῖτο συμμορία τῶν ὀλίγου πάνυ τετιμημένων ἀργυρίου, ὅπλα δ’ ἦν αὐτῶν σαυνία καὶ σφενδόναι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 59 8:4)
  • ὡσ δὲ τὰσ λόγχασ καὶ τὰ σαυνία καὶ ὅσα εἶχον ἑκηβόλα ἐξανάλωσαν, σπασάμενοι τὰ ξίφη συρράττουσιν ἀλλήλοισ ἴσῃ τόλμῃ τε καὶ ἐπιθυμίᾳ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ ἑκάτεροι χρώμενοι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 84 3:1)
  • τούτουσ ἔταξε σαυνία καὶ σφενδόνασ ἔχοντασ ἔξω τάξεωσ συστρατεύεσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 17 3:3)
  • εἰργάζοντο δὲ ὁμοῦ ἄνδρεσ τε καὶ γυναῖκεσ ἡμέρασ τε καὶ νυκτόσ, μὴ ἀναπαυόμενοι καὶ σῖτον αἱρούμενοι παρὰ μέροσ, ἐπὶ ὁρ́ῳ τακτῷ, θυρεοὺσ ἑκατὸν ἡμέρασ ἑκάστησ καὶ ξίφη τριακόσια καὶ καταπελτικὰ βέλη χίλια, σαυνία δὲ καὶ λόγχασ πενκακοσίασ, καὶ καταπέλτασ ὅσουσ δυνηθεῖεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 13 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. a javelin

Related

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

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