Hellas Alive Dictionary - σκυταλον

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

σκύταλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκύταλον σκύταλου

Structure: σκυταλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = skuta/lh I, Pind., Hdt., Xen.

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.

ὁ δὲ βαλὼν λίθον ἐπέτυχε τοῦ κυνόσ, ἐκτροχάσαντεσ δὲ οἱ Ἱπποκοωντίδαι καὶ τύπτοντεσ αὐτὸν τοῖσ σκυτάλοισ ἀπέκτειναν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 7 3:8)
ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐγένοντο κατὰ τὰσ θύρασ ἑκάστου τοῦ οἰκήματοσ, οἱ μὲν εἰσηκόντιζον, οἱ δὲ τοῖσ σκυτάλοισ ἔβαλλον, ἃ ἔχειν ἔφασαν ὡσ ἀποκόψοντεσ τῶν δοράτων τὰσ λόγχασ, οἱ δ’ ἐνεπίμπρασαν, καὶ Ξενοφῶντα ὀνομαστὶ καλοῦντεσ ἐξιόντα ἐκέλευον ἀποθνῄσκειν, ἢ αὐτοῦ ἔφασαν κατακαυθήσεσθαι αὐτόν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 19:1)

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

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