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σαυρωτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαυρωτήρ σαυρωτῆρος

Structure: σαυρωτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a spike at the butt-end

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

  • τὰν ἔλαφον Κλεόλαοσ ὑπὸ κναμοῖσι λοχήσασ, ἔκτανε Μαιάνδρου πὰρ τριέλικτον ὕδωρ, θηκτῷ σαυρωτῆρι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1101)
  • ἅμα δὲ τῷ τὸν Μαχανίδαν κατά τινα τόπον εὔβατον τῆσ τάφρου, προσθέντα τοὺσ μύωπασ, βίᾳ τὸν ἵππον ἐπάγειν καὶ διαπερᾶν, συναγαγὼν ἐκ μεταβολῆσ ὁ Φιλοποίμην αὐτῷ καὶ πατάξασ τῷ δόρατι καιρίωσ, καὶ προσενεγκὼν τῷ σαυρωτῆρι πληγὴν ἄλλην ἐκ διαλήψεωσ, ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ διέφθειρε τὸν τύραννον. (Polybius, Histories, book 11, chapter 18 4:1)

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

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