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στρόφιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: στρόφιον στρόφιου

Structure: στροφι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: stro/fos의 지소사

Sense

  1. a band worn by women
  2. a headband worn by priests

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

  • τῷ μὲν ὁ στρατηλάτασ πατὴρ ἐκλῄζεθ’, ὃ δὲ παῖσ Στροφίου, κακόμητισ ἀνήρ, οἱο͂σ Ὀδυσσεύσ, σιγᾷ δόλιοσ, πιστὸσ δὲ φίλοισ, θρασὺσ εἰσ ἀλκάν, ξυνετὸσ πολέμου, φόνιόσ τε δράκων. (Euripides, episode, lyric 1:5)
  • καὶ Πανοπέωσ μὲν ἐγένετο Ἐπειὸσ ὁ τὸν ἵππον τὸν δούρειον, ὡσ Ὅμηροσ ἐποίησεν, ἐργασάμενοσ, Κρίσου δὲ ἦν ἀπόγονοσ τρίτοσ Πυλάδησ, Στροφίου τε ὢν τοῦ Κρίσου καὶ Ἀναξιβίασ ἀδελφῆσ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 6:4)

Synonyms

  1. a headband worn by priests

Related

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

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