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σωμασκία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωμασκία

Structure: σωμασκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. bodily exercise, training of the body, athletic

Declension

First 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

  • ἐν ἅπασι τέταρτον ἐνόν, τοῦτο ἐν μὲν τοῖσ παρ’ ἡμῖν ψυχήν τε παρέχον καὶ σωμασκίαν ἐμποιοῦν καὶ πταίσαντοσ σώματοσ ἰατρικὴν καὶ ἐν ἄλλοισ ἄλλα συντιθὲν καὶ ἀκούμενον πᾶσαν καὶ παντοίαν σοφίαν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι, τῶν δ’ αὐτῶν τούτων ὄντων ἐν ὅλῳ τε οὐρανῷ καὶ κατὰ μεγάλα μέρη, καὶ προσέτι καλῶν καὶ εἰλικρινῶν, ἐν τούτοισ δ’ οὐκ ἄρα μεμηχανῆσθαι τὴν τῶν καλλίστων καὶ τιμιωτάτων φύσιν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 117:1)
  • ἂν ἄρα τινὰ ἡμῖν ὠφελίαν ἔχουσα φαίνηται μηδὲν τῆσ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἐλάττω, τῇ γε ἀρχῇ τὴν σωμασκίαν νικᾷ τῷ τὴν μὲν μετ’ ἀλγηδόνων εἶναι, τὴν δὲ μή. (Plato, Laws, book 1 134:6)

Synonyms

  1. bodily exercise

Related

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

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