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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)
  • "θαυμαζόντων δ’ ἡμῶν τὴν τεχνιτείαν Ἐρυμάνθιοι τῷ ὄντι σύαγροι κατὰ πινάκων τετραγώνων χρυσομίτρων σιβύναισ ἀργυραῖσ διαπεπερονημένοι περιεφέροντο ἑκάστῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 2 3:20)
  • ἀοιδίμων δ’ ὀψαρτυτῶν ὀνόματα καταλέγει Βάτων ἐν Εὐεργέταισ οὕτωσ εὖ γ’, ὦ Σιβύνη, τὰσ νύκτασ οὐ καθεύδομεν οὐδ’ ἀνατετράμμεθ’,8 ἀλλὰ καίεται λύχνοσ, καὶ βιβλίον ἐν ταῖσ χερσί, καὶ φροντίζομεν τί Σόφων καταλέλοιπ’ ἢ τί Σημωνακτίδησ ὁ Χῖοσ ἢ Τυνδάριχοσ ὁ Σικυώνιοσ, ἢ Ζωπυρῖνοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 81 5:9)
  • 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)
  • αἰνιγματῶδεσ πτανέ, τί σοι σιβύνησ, τί δὲ καὶ συὸσ εὐάδε δέρμα; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4211)

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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