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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

  • ὅθεν οὐκ ἐν τῇ κτήσει τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀλλ’ ἐν τῇ χρήσει τὸ μέγ’ ἐστίν, ἐπεὶ καὶ νήπια βρέφη κληρονομεῖ βασιλείασ πατρῴασ καὶ ἀρχάσ, ὡσ Χάριλλοσ, ὃν Λυκοῦργοσ ἅμα τῷ σπαργάνῳ κομίσασ εἰσ τὸ φιδίτιον ἀνθ’ ἑαυτοῦ βασιλέα τῆσ Σπάρτησ ἀνηγόρευσε· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 5 1:1)
  • ὅθεν οὐκ ἐν τῇ κτήσει τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀλλ’ ἐν τῇ χρήσει τὸ μέγ’ ἐστίν, ἐπεὶ καὶ νήπια βρέφη κληρονομεῖ βασιλείασ πατρῴασ καὶ ἀρχάσ, ὡσ Χάριλλοσ, ὃν Λυκοῦργοσ ἅμα τῷ σπαργάνῳ κομίσασ εἰσ τὸ φιδίτιον ἀνθ’ ἑαυτοῦ βασιλέα τῆσ Σπάρτησ ἀνηγόρευσε· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 51)

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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