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σκᾶπτον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκᾶπτον σκᾶπτου

Structure: σκαπτ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: doric for skh=ptron.

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • θεμιστεῖον ὃσ ἀμφέπει σκᾶπτον ἐν πολυμάλῳ Σικελίᾳ, δρέπων μὲν κορυφὰσ ἀρετᾶν ἄπο πασᾶν, ἀγλαί̈ζεται δὲ καὶ μουσικᾶσ ἐν ἀώτῳ, οἱᾶ παίζομεν φίλαν ἄνδρεσ ἀμφὶ θαμὰ τράπεζαν. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 1 3:1)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ σκᾶπτον μόναρχον καὶ θρόνοσ, ᾧ ποτε Κρηθεί̈δασ ἐγκαθίζων ἱππόταισ εὔθυνε λαοῖσ δίκασ, τὰ μὲν ἄνευ ξυνᾶσ ἀνίασ λῦσον ἄμμιν, μή τι νεώτερον ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀναστάῃ κακόν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 47:1)
  • σκάπτον δ’ αἶψα κατ’ εὖροσ ὅσον περιβάλλετο χῶρον, ἠδὲ κατὰ πρῴραν εἴσω ἁλὸσ ὁσσάτιόν περ ἑλκομένη χείρεσσιν ἐπιδραμέεσθαι ἔμελλεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 7:32)

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

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