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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

  • αὐτόσ τε γὰρ ὁ Σίκκιοσ πολλὰσ εἶχε πληγὰσ τὰσ μὲν ὑπὸ χερμάδων, τὰσ δ’ ὑπὸ σαυνίων, τὰσ δ’ ὑπὸ μαχαιρῶν, καὶ ὁ ὑπασπιστήσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 27 7:2)
  • οἱ δ’ ὑπ’ ἐκείνων ἀνῃρημένοι πάντεσ μαχαιρῶν ἢ χερμάδων ἢ σαυνίων, βέλουσ δὲ οὐδεμίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 27 7:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἀγχοῦ ἐγένοντο ἀλλήλων ἔθεον ἀλαλάξαντεσ ὁμόσε, πρῶτον μὲν οἱ ψιλοὶ σαυνίων τε βολαῖσ καὶ τοξεύμασι καὶ λίθοισ ἀπὸ σφενδόνησ μαχόμενοι, καὶ πολλὰ τραύματα ἔδοσαν ἀλλήλοισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 65 2:1)
  • φασὶν οὖν κατασκευάσαντασ εἰκόνασ τῶν ζῴων ἃ νῦν τιμῶσι, καὶ πήξαντασ ἐπὶ σαυνίων, φορεῖν τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ, καὶ διὰ τούτου τοῦ τρόπου γνωρίζειν ἕκαστον ἧσ εἰή συντάξεωσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 86 5:1)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ ξίφη τῶν παρ’ ἑτέροισ σαυνίων εἰσὶν οὐκ ἐλάττω, τὰ δὲ σαυνία τὰσ ἀκμὰσ ἔχει τῶν ξιφῶν μείζουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 30 4:2)

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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