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τειχοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τειχοφύλαξ τειχοφύλακος

Structure: τειχοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a guard of the walls

Declension

Third 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

  • ὁ δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ πύργου αὐτῷ ἀντεφώνησε μηδὲν εἶναι δεινόν, ἀλλὰ τὸν κύνα πρὸσ τὸ φῶσ τῶν τειχοφυλάκων καὶ τὸν ψόφον τοῦ κώδωνοσ παρωξύνθαι. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 8 2:2)
  • λιποθυμοῦντοσ οὖν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπολιπόντοσ, ἠναγκάσθησαν οἱ στρατιῶται προσδραμόντεσ τοῖσ τείχεσιν ἄρτον αἰτῆσαι παρὰ τῶν τειχοφυλάκων πολεμίων· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 10:1)
  • ἀναμίξασ δ’ αὐτοῖσ σφενδονήτασ καὶ τοξότασ ὑπὸ τὸ τεῖχοσ αὐτὸ παρέταττεν, ἵνα καὶ οἱ τειχοφύλακεσ ἐφικνοῖντο τῶν πολεμίων· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 5:2)
  • ὅ τε θόρυβοσ οὗτοσ δὴ μάλιστα αἰφνίδιοσ καὶ πολὺσ ὢν πάντῃ τοὺσ τειχοφύλακασ ἐτάραττεν, ὡσ καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ σφίσιν αὐτίκα πεσούμενον· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 9:10)
  • ὡσ δὲ καὶ τοῦτο κατέργαστο, πάντα δὴ ἦν ἐν τοῖσι Βαβυλωνίοισι Ζώπυροσ, καὶ στρατάρχησ τε οὗτόσ σφι καὶ τειχοφύλαξ ἀπεδέδεκτο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 157 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. a guard of the walls

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

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