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σήκωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σήκωμα

Structure: σηκωματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. in the balance, the weight
  2. a sacred enclosure

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

  • σὲ δ’ Ἀρκάδων χρὴ πόλιν ἐπ’ Ἀλφειοῦ ῥοαῖσ οἰκεῖν Λυκαίου πλησίον σηκώματοσ· (Euripides, episode, anapests 4:6)
  • ὧν τινὰ μὲν ἐβάσταζε λίθουσ οὐκ ἐλάττουσ δέκα ταλάντων, τινὰ δὲ σηκώματα μολίβδινα. (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 5 9:1)
  • προσγενομένων γὰρ τοῖσ τῶν Ῥωμαίων εὐζώνοισ τῶν ἐν τοῖσ βαρέσιν ὅπλοισ ἀνδρῶν, καθάπερ ἀρτίωσ εἶπα, καὶ συνεργούντων κατὰ τὴν μάχην, προσλαβόντεσ οἱο͂ν εἰ σήκωμα τὴν τούτων χρείαν, βαρέωσ ἐπέκειντο τοῖσ πολεμίοισ καὶ πολλοὺσ αὐτῶν ἔκτεινον. (Polybius, Histories, book 18, chapter 24 5:1)
  • τῶν δὲ κριῶν τυπτόντων ἐνεργῶσ τὰ τείχη, καὶ τῶν δορυδρεπάνων ἀποσυρόντων τὰσ ἐπάλξεισ, ἐπειρῶντο μὲν οἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἀντιμηχανᾶσθαι πρὸσ ταῦτα, τοῖσ μὲν κριοῖσ διὰ κεραιῶν ἐνιέντεσ σηκώματα μολιβδᾶ καὶ λίθουσ καὶ στύπη δρύινα· (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 27 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. in the balance

  2. a sacred enclosure

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

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