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στενόπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στενόπορος στενόπορᾱ στενόπορον

Structure: στενοπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with a narrow pass or outlet
  2. narrow passes, defiles, a strait, narrow

Declension

First/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

  • Ὁ δὲ συγκαλέσασ στρατηγούσ τε καὶ ἰλάρχασ καὶ τῶν ξυμμάχων τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ παρεκάλει θαρρεῖν μὲν ἐκ τῶν ἤδη σφίσι καλῶσ κεκινδυνευμένων καὶ ὅτι πρὸσ νενικημένουσ ὁ ἀγὼν νενικηκόσιν αὐτοῖσ ἔσται καὶ ὅτι ὁ θεὸσ ὑπὲρ σφῶν στρατηγεῖ ἄμεινον, ἐπὶ νοῦν Δαρείῳ ἀγαγὼν καθεῖρξαι τὴν δύναμιν ἐκ τῆσ εὐρυχωρίασ ἐσ τὰ στενόπορα, ἵνα σφίσι μὲν ξύμμετρον τὸ χωρίον ἀναπτύξαι τὴν φάλαγγα, τοῖσ δὲ ἀχρεῖον τὸ πλῆθοσ [ὅτι] ἔσται τῇ μάχῃ, οὔτε τὰ σώματα οὔτε τὰσ γνώμασ παραπλησίοισ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 7 3:1)
  • καὶ ἑώσ μὲν πάντῃ στενόπορα ἦν τὰ χωρία, ἐπὶ κέρωσ ἦγεν, ὡσ δὲ διεχώρει ἐσ πλάτοσ, ἀνέπτυσσεν ἀεὶ τὸ κέρασ ἐσ φάλαγγα, ἄλλην καὶ ἄλλην τῶν ὁπλιτῶν τάξιν παράγων, τῇ μὲν ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ ὄροσ, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 8 2:3)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν Συρακόσιοι τῆσ ἡμέρασ ὑποφωσκούσησ ἀπέστειλαν τοὺσ προκαταληψομένουσ τὰ στενόπορα τῶν ὁδῶν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 18 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. narrow passes

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

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