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σκηπτός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκηπτός σκηπτοῦ

Structure: σκηπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: skh/ptw

Sense

  1. a thunder-bolt

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

  • ἦ σ1’ ἀνακινεῖ στέρνοισ ἐνναίων σκηπτὸσ πόθοσ ὄμμασι θραυσθεὶσ παιδὸσ ἀνικήτου, τὸν ἐγὼ τιθασόν σοι ὑπέστην ποιῆσαι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 61 4:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ σκηπτὸσ ἀπέκοψε τοὺσ ἄλλουσ καὶ διέφθειρε, πρὸσ δ’ Ἀλέξανδρον αὐτῆσ τὸ δυσμενὲσ· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 10 3:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ σκηπτὸσ ἀπέκοψε τοὺσ ἄλλουσ καὶ διέφθειρε, πρὸσ δ’ Ἀλέξανδρον αὐτῆσ τὸ δυσμενὲσ γέγονε φιλόνεικον καὶ δύσερι καὶ δυσεκβίαστον, ὥσπερ πρὸσ τὸν Ἡρακλέα. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 10 2:1)
  • ἔστω δὲ ὁ λόγοσ εἰσ τὰ τῆσ γνώμησ ἔτι τὸ εἰκόσι χρῆσθαι σεμνότητα καὶ ἀξίωμα ἔχοντα τὸν λόγον ἐργάζεται, ὥσπερ ἐν θαλάττῃ πνεῦμα ἀκατάστατον ὡσ ἂν τύχῃ κινούμενον, καὶ πάλιν ὥσπερ σκηπτὸσ ἢ χειμάρρουσ ἅπαν τοῦτο τὸ πρᾶγμα εἰσ τὴν πόλιν εἰσέπεσεν, καὶ ἑτέρωθι πάλιν ἐπεὶ ὅτι γε ὥσπερ περίοδοσ ἢ καταβολὴ πυρετοῦ ἢ ἄλλου τινὸσ κακοῦ καὶ τῷ πάνυ πόρρω δοκοῦντι νῦν ἀφεστάναι προσέρχεται οὐδεὶσ ἀγνοεῖ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 15:3)
  • λοιμοῦ τισ ἦλθε σκηπτὸσ ἢ στάσισ πόλει; (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a thunder-bolt

Related

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

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