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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

  • 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)
  • τόν τε γὰρ Ἕκτορα ῥήξαντα τὰσ πύλασ καὶ παρὰ ταῖσ ναυσὶν εἴσω μαχόμενον οὗτοσ ἐξέωσεν καὶ τὴν Πρωτεσιλάου ναῦν ἤδη καιομένην ἔσβεσεν, καίτοι ἐπεβάτευον αὐτῆσ οὐχ οἱ φαυλότατοι, ἀλλ’ οἱ τοῦ Τελαμῶνοσ Αἰάσ τε καὶ Τεῦκροσ, ὁ μὲν ὁπλίτησ ἀγαθόσ, ὁ δὲ τοξότησ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 46:3)
  • ὥστ’ εἰ μέν γέ τισ ᾄδοι Τελαμῶνοσ, Κλειταγόρασ ᾄδειν δέον, ἐπῃνέσαμεν ἂν καὶ προσεπιωρκήσαμεν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene20)
  • τρικλινίῳ, Τελαμῶνοσ οἰμώζοντεσ ἀλλήλοισ μέλη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 42 3:1)
  • κατεῖδον δὲ δύ’ Αἰάντε συνέδρω, τὸν Οἰλέωσ Τελαμῶνόσ τε γόνον, τὸν Σαλαμῖνοσ στέφανον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, antistrophe 12)

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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