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ταφρεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταφρεία

Structure: ταφρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from tafreu/w

Sense

  1. a making of ditches or trenches

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

  • τὸν δὲ τειχισμὸν τοῦτον, ὃν σύ μου διέσυρεσ, καὶ τὴν ταφρείαν ἄξια μὲν χάριτοσ καὶ ἐπαίνου κρίνω, πῶσ γὰρ οὔ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 422:2)
  • συντελουμένων δ’ ἀκροβολισμῶν περὶ τὴν ταφρείαν καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν Λυσίμαχον πειρωμένων ἀνείργειν τοῖσ βέλεσι τοὺσ ἐργαζομένουσ ἐν πᾶσιν προετέρουν οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἀντίγονον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 109 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a making of ditches or trenches

Related

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

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