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σκυτάλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυτάλη

Structure: σκυταλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a staff, cudgel, club
  2. a staff or baton, a Spartan dispatch, a message

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

  • καὶ ποιήσεισ σκυτάλασ ἐκ ξύλων ἀσήπτων καὶ καταχρυσώσεισ αὐτὰσ χρυσίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 30:5)
  • τοὺσ δὲ ἠιθέουσ βουλόμενοσ σῷσαι καὶ ἐπιστάμενοσ ἄντικρυσ οὐκ ἀνεξομένουσ, σκυτάλασ δοὺσ καθ’ ἕνα αὐτῶν πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐφόρουσ ἔπεμψε. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 15 1:1)
  • οἱ δὲ συννοήσαντεσ οὐκ ἠνέσχοντο λαβεῖν τὰσ σκυτάλασ· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 15 1:3)
  • τοὺσ δὲ ἠιθέουσ βουλόμενοσ σῷσαι καὶ ἐπιστάμενοσ ἄντικρυσ οὐκ ἀνεξομένουσ, σκυτάλασ δοὺσ καθ’ ἕνα αὐτῶν πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐφόρουσ ἔπεμψε. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 15 1:1)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν περί αὐτοὺσ ῥόπαλα καὶ σκυτάλασ ἐκόμιζον οἴκοθεν αὐτοὶ δὲ τῶν δίφρων καταγνυμένων ὑπὸ τοῦ φεύγοντοσ ὄχλου τὰ κλάσματα καὶ τοὺσ πόδασ λαμβάνοντεσ ἀνέβαινον ἐπὶ τὸν Τιβέριον, ἅμα παίοντεσ τοὺσ προτεταγμένουσ καὶ τούτων μὲν ἦν τροπὴ καὶ φόνοσ· (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 19 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a staff

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

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