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σκύταλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκύταλον σκύταλου

Structure: σκυταλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

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

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

  • ἔγωγέ τοι τὸ σκύταλον ἐξηνεγκάμην τὸ τοῦ Λαμίου τουτὶ καθεύδοντοσ λάθρᾳ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:24)
  • ἐπεὶ ἀντία πῶσ ἂν τριόδοντοσ Ἡρακλέησ σκύταλον τίναξε χερσίν, ἁνίκ’ ἀμφὶ Πύλον σταθεὶσ ἤρειδε Ποσειδᾶν ἤρειδεν δέ νιν ἀργυρέῳ τόξῳ πολεμίζων Φοῖβοσ, οὐδ’ Αἴ̈δασ ἀκινήταν ἔχε ῥάβδον, βρότεα σώμαθ’ ᾇ κατάγει κοίλαν πρὸσ ἀγυιὰν θνᾳσκόντων; (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 9 8:1)
  • τῷ καὶ ἐπεὶ δαίτηθεν ἰοί κεκορημένοσ ἤδη νέκταροσ εὐόδμοιο φίλασ ἐσ δῶμ’ ἀλόχοιο, τῷ μὲν τόξον ἔδωκεν ὑπωλένιόν τε φαρέτραν, τῷ δὲ σιδάρειον σκύταλον κεχαραγμένον ὄζοισ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 16)

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

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