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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 ἐπορεύθη ὁ προφήτησ καὶ ἔστη τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ τῆσ ὁδοῦ καὶ κατεδήσατο ἐν τελαμῶνι τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 21:38)
  • 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)
  • οἶδα περικλήιστον ὅλον γένοσ Αἰακιδάων, ἀγλαϊήν Πηλῆοσ, ἐυκλείην Τελαμῶνοσ, ἤθεα Πατρόκλοιο καὶ ἠνορέην Ἀχιλῆοσ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1131)
  • ὤμοισιν δέ μιν ἀμφὶ μελάνδετον ἀο͂ρ ἔκειτο χαλκέου ἐκ τελαμῶνοσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 24:4)
  • εἶδεσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλο τι ἐν τῷ γυμνασίῳ χαλκοῦν περιφερέσ, ἀσπίδι μικρᾷ ἐοικὸσ ὄχανον οὐκ ἐχούσῃ οὐδὲ τελαμῶνασ, καὶ ἐπειράθησ γε αὐτοῦ κειμένου ἐν τῷ μέσῳ καὶ ἐδόκει σοι βαρὺ καὶ δύσληπτον ὑπὸ λειότητοσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 27:5)
  • μελισσοτρόφου Σαλαμῖνοσ ὦ βασιλεῦ Τελαμών, νάσου περικύμονοσ οἰκήσασ ἕδραν τᾶσ ἐπικεκλιμένασ ὄχθοισ ἱεροῖσ, ἵν’ ἐλαίασ πρῶτον ἔδειξε κλάδον γλαυκᾶσ Ἀθάνα, οὐράνιον στέφανον λιπαραῖσί <τε> κόσμον Ἀθήναισ, ἔβασ ἔβασ τῷ τοξοφόρῳ συναρι‐ στεύων ἅμ’ Ἀλκμήνασ γόνῳ Ἴλιον Ἴλιον ἐκπέρσων πόλιν ἁμετέραν τὸ πάροιθεν ὅτ’ ἔβασ ἀφ’ Ἑλλάδοσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • ὄνομα μὲν ἡμῖν Τεῦκροσ, ὁ δὲ φύσασ πατὴρ Τελαμών, Σαλαμὶσ δὲ πατρὶσ ἡ θρέψασά με. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:19)
  • Τελαμὼν ὁ φύσασ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:24)
  • ὑπομένειν πληγὰσ ἄκμων κονδύλουσ πλάττειν δὲ Τελαμών τοὺσ καλοὺσ πειρᾶν καπνόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 34 1:2)
  • Φώκου ὄντοσ ἐκ Ψαμάθησ Αἰακῷ καὶ στεργομένου, Τελαμὼν ἦγεν ἐπὶ θήραν καὶ συὸσ ἐπιφανέντοσ κατὰ τοῦ μισουμένου ἐπαφῆκε τὸ δόρυ καὶ ἐφόνευσεν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 251)

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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