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τοξότης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τοξότης τοξότου

Structure: τοξοτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: to/con

Sense

  1. a bowman, archer
  2. the Archer, Sagittarius
  3. the city-guard

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

  • ἆρ’ ἂν ἐπιδείξασθαί τι ἔργον τοξότου ἄξιον; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 5:9)
  • ὥστ’ ἐγὼ μὲν ἠλέησα κἀπεμορξάμην ἰδὼν ἄνδρα πρεσβύτην ὑπ’ ἀνδρὸσ τοξότου κυκώμενον, ὃσ μὰ τὴν Δήμητρ’, ἐκεῖνοσ ἡνίκ’ ἦν Θουκυδίδησ, οὐδ’ ἂν αὐτὴν τὴν Ἀχαίαν ῥᾳδίωσ ἠνέσχετο, ἀλλὰ κατεπάλαισε μέντἂν πρῶτον Εὐάθλουσ δέκα, κατεβόησε δ’ ἂν κεκραγὼσ τοξότασ τρισχιλίουσ, περιετόξευσεν δ’ ἂν αὐτοῦ τοῦ πατρὸσ τοὺσ ξυγγενεῖσ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, antepirrhema2)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴ μελέτω αὐτῷ μήτε Φίλιπποσ ἐκκεκομμένοσ τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν ὑπὸ Ἀστέροσ τοῦ Ἀμφιπολίτου τοῦ τοξότου ἐν Ὀλύνθῳ, ἀλλὰ τοιοῦτοσ οἱο͂σ ἦν δειχθήσεται· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 38 1:1)
  • ἕτεροσ τοξευθεὶσ καὶ τὸν βίον ἐκλείπων, ἔλεγεν, οὐ μέλει μοι τοῦτο ὅτι ἀποθανοῦμαι, ἀλλ’ ὅτι ὑπὸ γύννιδοσ τοξότου καὶ μηδὲν πράξασ. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 461)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτι ὑπὸ γύννιδοσ τοξότου καὶ μηδὲν πράξασ. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 46 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bowman

  2. the Archer

  3. the city-guard

Related

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

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