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τειχομάχης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τειχομάχης τειχομάχου

Structure: τειχομαχ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. storming walls, an engineer

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

  • οἱ δὲ Νομαντῖνοι πολλάκισ μὲν τοῖσ φυλάσσουσιν ἐπεχείρουν, ἄλλοτε ἄλλῃ κατὰ μέρη, ταχεῖα δ’ αὐτίκα καὶ καταπληκτικὴ τῶν ἀμυνομένων ἡ ὄψισ ἦν, σημείων τε ὑψηλῶν πανταχόθεν αἰρομένων καὶ ἀγγέλων διαθεόντων, καὶ τῶν τειχομάχων ἀθρόωσ ἀναπηδώντων ἐσ τὰ τείχη, σαλπικτῶν τε κατὰ πάντα πύργον ἐξοτρυνόντων, ὥστε τὸν κύκλον ὅλον εὐθὺσ ἅπασιν εἶναι φοβερώτατον, ἐσ πεντήκοντα σταδίουσ ἐπέχοντα ἐν περιόδῳ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 3:8)

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

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