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στυππεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στυππεῖον στυππεῖου

Structure: στυππει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the coarse fibre of flax or hemp, tow, oakum

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

  • καὶ νὺξ μὲν ὡρ́ιστο πρὸσ τήν ἐπίθεσιν μία τῶν Κρονιάδων, ξίφη δὲ καὶ στυππεῖα καὶ θεῖον εἰσ τήν Κεθήγου φέροντεσ οἰκίαν ἀπέκρυψαν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 18 2:1)
  • ὑπερτιθέμενοι δὲ τῇ φιλοδοξίᾳ τοὺσ πολιορκοῦντασ, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐκ τῶν μεγίστων ἱστῶν κεραίαισ ἱσταμέναισ ἐβάσταζον ἄνδρασ ἐν θωρακίοισ, οὗτοι δ’ ἀφ’ ὑψηλῶν τόπων δᾷδασ ἡμμένασ ἠφίεσαν καὶ στυππεῖα καιόμενα μετὰ πίττησ εἰσ τὰσ τῶν πολεμίων μηχανάσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 51 3:2)

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

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