Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σκόλοψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκόλοψ σκόλοπος

Structure: σκολοπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. A pale, a stake; a palisade
  2. An instrument for operating on the urethra
  3. The point of a fishing hook

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

  • ἁλούσησ δὲ τῆσ παρασκευῆσ τῶν Λατίνων οἱ μὲν ἀναχωροῦντεσ ἐκ τῆσ τροπῆσ ὡσ εἰσ ἀσφαλῆ καταφυγὴν ὑπὸ τῶν καταλαβομένων αὐτὴν ἱππέων ἀπώλλυντο, οἱ δ’ ἐκ τοῦ στρατοπέδου φεύγειν ὁρμήσαντεσ εἰσ τὸ πεδίον ὑπὸ τῆσ Ῥωμαϊκῆσ φάλαγγοσ ὁμόσε χωρούσησ ἀπέθνησκον, οἱ δὲ πλείουσ αὐτῶν ὠθούμενοί τε ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων καὶ καταπατούμενοι περὶ τοῖσ σκόλοψιν ἢ κατὰ τὰσ τάφρουσ τὸν οἴκτιστόν τε καὶ ἀγεννέστατον τρόπον διεφθάρησαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 53 6:1)
  • ἐφέρετο δὲ καὶ τάφρων ἐγχωστήρια ὄργανα καὶ πύργοι πτυκτοί, σανίδασ ἐσ τὰ τείχη μεθιέντεσ, καὶ βέλη παντοῖα καὶ λίθοι, καὶ γέρρα τοῖσ σκόλοψιν ἐπιρριπτεῖσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 4 7:5)

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