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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

  • τούτου δὸσ ἀντιβολῶ σέ μοι τὰ σπάργανα. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:29)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐμὸσ γενέτασ καὶ σόσ γ’, ἀμαθήσ, οἰωνοῖσ ἔρρει συλαθείσ, σπάργανα ματέροσ ἐξαλλάξασ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 2:3)
  • "ἐπεὶ νῦν γε καὶ νεοττιὰσ συντίθησι τὰ πτηνὰ πρὸ τῆσ ᾠοτοκίασ, καὶ σπάργανα παρασκευάζουσιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 17:40)
  • "ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἂν εἴποισ καὶ νεοττιὰν ᾠοῦ γεγονέναι πρότερον καὶ σπάργανα παίδων. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 17:41)
  • ἐπελθόντασ γὰρ αὐτῷ τοὺσ δράκοντασ ἐπὶ τὰ σπάργανα ἀντ’ ἄλλησ κινήσεωσ τῆσ χειρὸσ διεχρήσατο· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:9)
  • ὕπνοσ ἐμοί γε μέμηλε καὶ ἡμετέρησ γάλα μητρὸσ σπάργανά τ’ ἀμφ’ ὤμοισιν ἔχειν καὶ θερμὰ λοετρά. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 27:10)

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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