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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

  • οὓσ δ’ ἐν δόμοισιν ἔλιφ’ ὅτ’ ἐσ Τροίαν ἔπλει, ἄρσενά τ’ Ὀρέστην θῆλύ τ’ Ἠλέκτρασ θάλοσ, τὸν μὲν πατρὸσ γεραιὸσ ἐκκλέπτει τροφεὺσ μέλλοντ’ Ὀρέστην χερὸσ ὑπ’ Αἰγίσθου θανεῖν Στροφίῳ τ’ ἔδωκε Φωκέων ἐσ γῆν τρέφειν· (Euripides, episode 1:6)
  • Στροφίῳ γὰρ οὐκ ἦν παῖσ, ὅτ’ ὠλλύμην ἐγώ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:9)
  • Ὀρέστησ δὲ παρὰ Στροφίῳ ἀνατραφεὶσ τοὺσ φονεῖσ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἐτιμωρήσατο· (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 372)
  • Ὀρέστησ δὲ παρὰ Στροφίῳ ἀνατραφεὶσ τοὺσ φονεῖσ; (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 372)
  • Ἠλέκτρα δὲ μία τῶν Ἀγαμέμνονοσ θυγατέρων Ὀρέστην τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἐκκλέπτει καὶ δίδωσι Στροφίῳ Φωκεῖ τρέφειν, ὁ δὲ αὐτὸν ἐκτρέφει μετὰ Πυλάδου παιδὸσ ἰδίου. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 38:1)

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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