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σιβύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιβύνη

Structure: σιβυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a hunting spear, a spear, pike

Declension

First 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

  • ἔφιπποσ δέ φησιν ὡσ Ἀλέξανδροσ καὶ τὰσ ἱερὰσ ἐσθῆτασ ἐφόρει ἐν τοῖσ δείπνοισ, ὁτὲ μὲν τὴν τοῦ Ἄμμωνοσ πορφυρίδα καὶ περισχιδεῖσ καὶ κέρατα καθάπερ ὁ θεόσ, ὁτὲ δὲ τὴν τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ, ἣν καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἁρ́ματοσ ἐφόρει πολλάκισ, ἔχων τὴν Περσικὴν στολήν, ὑποφαίνων ἄνωθεν τῶν ὤμων τό τε τόξον καὶ τὴν σιβύνην, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ τὴν τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 53 2:1)
  • Ἁρπαλίων ὁ πρέσβυσ, ὁ πᾶσ ῥυτίσ, οὑπιλινευτήσ, τόνδε παρ’̓’ Ἡρακλεῖ θῆκέ με τὸν σιβύνην, ἐκ πολλοῦ πλειῶνοσ ἐπεὶ βάροσ οὐκέτι χεῖρεσ ἔσθενον, εἰσ κεφαλὴν δ’ ἤλυθε λευκοτέρην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 931)
  • τῶν δ’ ἀξόνων τὰ προέχοντα χρυσᾶ κατεσκεύαστο, προτομὰσ ἔχοντα λεόντων σιβύνην ὀδὰξ κατεχούσασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 27 3:2)
  • ὁ δ’ Ἀρχάγαθοσ εἰσ ὀργὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν προαχθεὶσ καὶ παρά τινοσ τῶν ὑπασπιστῶν ἁρπάσασ σιβύνην διήλασε διὰ τῶν πλευρῶν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 33 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a hunting spear

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

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