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τελαμών

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τελαμών τελαμῶνος

Structure: τελαμων (Stem)

Etym.: from Root TLA, Tla/w, whence also the hero Telamon took his name, cf. A)/tlas

Sense

  1. a broad strap for bearing
  2. a leathern strap or belt
  3. a broad linen bandage

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

  • καὶ ἔσπευσε καὶ ἀφεῖλε τὸν τελαμῶνα ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπέγνω αὐτὸν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ἰσραήλ, ὅτι ἐκ τῶν προφητῶν οὗτοσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 21:41)
  • ρίαν ἄθυρσιν παρθένοι μέλπουσι τ[εὸν κράτοσ], ὦ δέσποινα παγξε[ίνου χθονόσ, Ἐνδαί̈δα τε ῥοδό[παχυν, ἃ τ[ὸν ἱππευτὰ]ν ἔτ[ικτε Πηλέα καὶ Τελαμῶνα [κρα]τ̣ (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 16:1)
  • 3 ισ’ τὸν Τελαμῶνα πρῶτον, Αἰάντα δὲ δεύτερον ἐσ Τροίαν λέγουσιν ἐλθεῖν Δαναῶν μετ’ Ἀχιλλέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 6:2)
  • ἴσχε, τὸν ᾠδὸν λάμβανε, ἔπειτα μηδὲν τῶν ἀπηρχαιωμένων τούτων περάνῃσ, τὸν Τελαμῶνα μηδὲ τὸν παιῶνα μηδ’ Ἁρμόδιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 110 1:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἐθεάσατο Τελαμῶνα πρῶτον εἰσεληλυθότα, σπασάμενοσ τὸ ξίφοσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ὡρ́μα, μηδένα θέλων ἑαυτοῦ κρείττονα νομίζεσθαι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 6 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. a broad strap for bearing

  2. a leathern strap or belt

  3. a broad linen bandage

Related

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

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