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στῖφος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στῖφος στῖφεος

Structure: στιφο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stei/bw

Sense

  1. a close-pressed or compact body: a body of men in close array, a column, mass, the close array

Declension

Third 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

  • αἱ δὲ δύο ἐπιξεναγίαι στῖφοσ, ἓξ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα ἀνδρῶν καὶ τετρακισχιλίων. (Arrian, chapter 14 7:3)
  • πρόσταξιν δέ, ὅταν ἢ ἐξ ἑκατέρων τῶν μερῶν τῆσ τάξεωσ ἢ ἐκ θατέρου κατὰ τὸ κέρασ αὐτὸ προστεθῇ τι στῖφοσ τῇ πάσῃ φάλαγγι κατ̓ εὐθὺ τοῦ μετώπου τῆσ τάξεωσ. (Arrian, chapter 26 7:1)
  • ὦ Πόσειδον ὡσ καλὸν τὸ στῖφοσ αὐτῶν φαίνεται καὶ πυκνὸν καὶ γοργὸν ὥσπερ μᾶζα καὶ πανδαισία. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, trochees6)
  • ὁρᾷσ γὰρ αὐτῷ στῖφοσ οἱο͂́ν ἐστι βυρσοπωλῶν νεανιῶν· (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme7)
  • φυλέτασ μὲν γὰρ φυλετῶν καὶ φράτορασ φρατόρων οὐ πολὺν λόγον ἔχειν ἐν τοῖσ δεινοῖσ, τὸ δ’ ἐξ ἐρωτικῆσ φιλίασ συνηρμοσμένον στῖφοσ ἀδιάλυτον εἶναι καὶ ἄρρηκτον, ὅταν οἱ μὲν ἀγαπῶντεσ τοὺσ ἐρωμένουσ, οἱ δὲ αἰσχυνόμενοι τοὺσ ἐρῶντασ ἐμμένωσι τοῖσ δεινοῖσ ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 18 2:2)

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

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