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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)
  • τὸν γοῦν Διομήδην πάνυ στερεῶσ κατέκλινεν ἐπὶ βύρσησ ἀγραύλου βοόσ, κύκλῳ περιστήσασ τὰ δόρατα ὀρθὰ ἐπὶ σαυρωτῆροσ, οὐ κόσμου χάριν, ἀλλ’ ἕτοιμα λαβεῖν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 56:1)
  • ἔγχεα δέ σφιν ὄρθ’ ἐπὶ σαυρωτῆροσ ἐλήλατο, τῆλε δὲ χαλκὸσ λάμφ’ ὥσ τε στεροπὴ πατρὸσ Διόσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 10 17:5)
  • καὶ τούτων χίλιοι μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσι δόρασι ἀντὶ τῶν σαυρωτήρων ῥοιὰσ εἶχον χρυσέασ καὶ πέριξ συνεκλήιον τοὺσ ἄλλουσ, οἱ δὲ εἰνακισχίλιοι ἐντὸσ τούτων ἐόντεσ ἀργυρέασ ῥοιὰσ εἶχον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 41 3:1)
  • καὶ τοῦ μὲν ἥ τε αἰχμὴ καὶ ὁ σαυρωτήρ, ἡ μάχαιρα δὲ καὶ διὰ πάσησ χαλκοῦ πεποίηται. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 13:3)

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

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