Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

στρεπτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στρεπτός στρεπτή στρεπτόν

Structure: στρεπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: stre/fw의 분사형

Sense

  1. flexible, pliant, of chain-armour, pliant, twined, wreathed
  2. a collar of twisted or linked metal
  3. a twist or roll
  4. to be bent or turned, may be turned, a glib, pliant
  5. bent, curved

Examples

  • στρεπτοὶ καὶ νεήλατα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 53 2:4)
  • ποῦ νῦν ἐκεῖνά σου τὰ πολλὰ ἀριστεῖα, οἱ στρεπτοὶ καὶ τὰ ψέλλια καὶ τὰ δόρατα καὶ τὰ φάλαρα καὶ οἱ τῶν ὑπάτων στέφανοι καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν μονομαχιῶν λάφυρα καὶ πᾶσα ἡ ἄλλη βαρύτησ, ἣν τότ’ ἠνεσχόμεθά σου λέγοντοσ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 45 3:1)
  • καὶ ἀναξυρίδεσ Μηδικαὶ καὶ στολαὶ ὑακινθινοβαφεῖσ λέγει ὅτι ἔκειντο, αἱ δὲ πορφύρασ αἱ δὲ ἄλλησ καὶ ἄλλησ χρόασ, καὶ στρεπτοὶ καὶ ἀκινάκαι καὶ ἐνώτια χρυσοῦ τε καὶ λίθων κολλητά, καὶ τράπεζα ἔκειτο. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 29 6:2)
  • ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα Μηδικά ἐστι, καὶ οἱ πορφυροῖ χιτῶνεσ καὶ οἱ κάνδυεσ καὶ οἱ στρεπτοὶ οἱ περὶ τῇ δέρῃ καὶ τὰ ψέλια τὰ περὶ ταῖσ χερσίν, ἐν Πέρσαισ δὲ τοῖσ οἴκοι καὶ νῦν ἔτι πολὺ καὶ ἐσθῆτεσ φαυλότεραι καὶ δίαιται εὐτελέστεραι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 3:2)
  • τίνοσ δὲ δῶρα γιγνώσκεται ὥσπερ ἔνια τῶν βασιλέωσ, ψέλια καὶ στρεπτοὶ καὶ ἵπποι χρυσοχάλινοι; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 10:3)

Synonyms

  1. flexible

  2. a twist or roll

  3. bent

Related

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

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