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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

  • τὸ δὲ ἀληθέστερον εἰπεῖν, τειχομαχία. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 66 2:3)
  • πολλαχοῦ δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἰλιάδι, οἱο͂ν καὶ ἐπὶ τειχομαχίᾳ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 55:1)
  • τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν, ὃ δὴ κράτιστον ἦν, αὐτὸσ ἔχων ὑπέμενεν ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχουσ καὶ παρεῖχε τοῖσ προεξελθοῦσιν ἧττον ἐπιπόνουσ διηρτημένων τειχομαχίᾳ τῶν πολεμίων τὰσ φυγάσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 46 5:1)
  • κρίνασ δὲ Οὐολούσκοισ ἐπιχειρεῖν πρώτοισ πόλιν αὐτῶν Λογγόλαν ἐξ ἐφόδου καταλαμβάνεται, ἐπιβαλομένων μὲν τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ μεταποιεῖσθαί τινοσ ἀρετῆσ καί τινα στρατιὰν ὑπαίθριον ἀποστειλάντων, ᾗ τοὺσ ἐπιόντασ ἀνείρξειν ἐπίστευον, αἰσχρῶσ δ’ ἀναγκασθέντων φυγεῖν πρὶν ἢ λαμπρόν τι ἔργον ἀποδείξασθαι καὶ οὐδ’ ἐν τῇ τειχομαχίᾳ γενναῖον οὐδὲν διαπραξαμένων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 91 2:1)
  • ἐπιχειρήσασ δὲ τῇ τειχομαχίᾳ μέχρι δείλησ ὀψίασ ἀποκρούεται πρὸσ τῶν ἐναντίων πολλοὺσ τῶν οἰκείων ἀπολέσασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 92 1:3)

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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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