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τειχομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τειχομαχία

Structure: τειχομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from teixoma/xhs

Sense

  1. a battle with walls, a siege

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

  • ἐγένοντο μὲν οὖν καὶ τειχομαχίαι τινὲσ αὐτόθι καρτεραὶ καὶ πρὸ τῶν ἐρυμάτων ὀξεῖαι μάχαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 21 1:3)
  • οὐδ’ ἔληξαν ἀπὸ τοῦδε αἱ στάσεισ ἔτι κρινόμεναι στρατοπέδοισ, ἀλλ’ ἐσβολαὶ συνεχεῖσ ἐσ τὴν Ῥώμην ἐγίνοντο καὶ τειχομαχίαι καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα πολέμων ἔργα, οὐδενὸσ ἔτι ἐσ αἰδῶ τοῖσ βιαζομένοισ ἐμποδὼν ὄντοσ, ἢ νόμων ἢ πολιτείασ ἢ πατρίδοσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 7 6:2)
  • καὶ μέχρι πέμπτησ ἡμέρασ προσβολαὶ μὲν ἐγίνοντο τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀδιάλειπτοι, ἐκδρομαὶ δὲ τῶν Ιὠταπατηνῶν καὶ τειχομαχίαι καρτερώτεραι, καὶ οὔτε Ιοὐδαῖοι τὴν τῶν πολεμίων ἰσχὺν κατωρρώδουν οὔτε Ῥωμαῖοι πρὸσ τὸ τῆσ πόλεωσ δυσάλωτον ἀπέκαμνον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 195:1)
  • οὐδετέρων δὲ ἥπτετο κόποσ, ἀλλὰ προσβολαὶ καὶ τειχομαχίαι καὶ κατὰ λόχουσ ἐκδρομαὶ συνεχεῖσ δι’ ὅλησ ἡμέρασ ἦσαν, οὐδ’ ἔστιν ἥτισ ἰδέα μάχησ ἀπελείπετο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 350:1)
  • ἀμυνομένων δὲ τῶν Περινθίων εὐρώστωσ καὶ ταχὺ τεῖχοσ ἕτερον ἀντοικοδομησάντων ἀγῶνεσ θαυμαστοὶ καὶ τειχομαχίαι συνίσταντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 70 29:3)

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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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