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σπάργανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπάργανον σπάργανου

Structure: σπαργαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: spa/rgw

Sense

  1. a swathing band, swaddling-clothes, tokens by which a person is identified

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

  • σπάργανον ἀμφ’ ὤμοισ εἰλυμένοσ, ἠύτε τέκνον νήπιον, ἐν παλάμῃσι περ’ ἰγνύσι λαῖφοσ ἀθύρων κεῖτο, χέλυν ἐρατὴν ἐπ’ ἀριστερὰ χειρὸσ ἐέργων. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 15:9)
  • ἄμφω δὲ παρ’ οὐάτα χερσὶν ἐώθει σπάργανον ἀμφ’ ὤμοισιν ἐελμένοσ, εἶπε δὲ μῦθον· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 33:3)
  • καὶ τὸ σπάργανον εἶχεν ἐπ’ ὠλένῃ οὐδ’ ἀπέβαλλε. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 42:2)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ Ἡρακλέοσ ἀντέχομαι προφρόνωσ, ἐν κορυφαῖσ ἀρετᾶν μεγάλαισ ἀρχαῖον ὀτρύνων λόγον, ὡσ, ἐπεὶ σπλάγχνων ὕπο ματέροσ αὐτίκα θαητὰν ἐσ αἴγλαν παῖσ Διὸσ ὠδῖνα φεύγων διδύμῳ σὺν κασιγνήτῳ μόλεν, ὡσ οὐ λαθὼν χρυσόθρονον Ἥραν κροκωτὸν σπάργανον ἐγκατέβα· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 1 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. a swathing band

Related

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

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