Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τρήρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρήρων τρήρωνος

Structure: τρηρων (Stem)

Etym.: tre/w

Sense

  1. timorous, shy

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 κέπφοι τρήρωνεσ ἀλωπεκιδεῦσι πέπεισθε, ὧν δόλιαι ψυχαί, δόλιαι φρένεσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls4)
  • Ἥρην δέ γ’ Ὅμηροσ ἔφασκ’ ἰκέλην εἶναι τρήρωνι πελείῃ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme18)
  • τῇ μὲν τ’ οὐδὲ ποτητὰ, παρέρχεται οὐδὲ Πέλειαι τρήρωνεσ, ταὶ τ’ ἀμβροσίην Διὶ πατρὶ φέρουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 79 3:2)
  • ἔπειτα δ’ ὅτι τὸ τρήρωνεσ μόνων ἐδέξαντο εἶναι ἐπίθετον πελειάδων, ἐπεὶ διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν εὐλαβὴσ ἡ ὄρνισ αὕτη τρεῖν δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ εὐλαβεῖσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 79 5:2)
  • Ζεὺσ δ’ ἄρ’ ἐνὶ Κρήτῃ τρέφετο μέγασ, οὐδ’ ἄρα τίσ νιν ἠείδει μακάρων ὁ δ’ ἀέξετο πᾶσι μέλεσσι, τὸν μὲν ἄρα τρήρωνεσ ὑπὸ ζαθέῳ τράφον ἄντρῳ ἀμβροσίην φορέουσαι ἀπ’ ’ Ὠκεανοῖο ῥοάων νέκταρ δ’ ἐκ πέτρησ μέγασ αἰετὸσ αἰὲν ἀφύσσων γαμφηλῇσ φορέεσκε ποτὸν Διὶ μητιόεντι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 80 3:1)
  • τρηρὼν μὲν φεύγουσα βίην κίρκοιο πελειὰσ ὑψόθεν Αἰσονίδεω πεφοβημένη ἔμπεσε κόλποισ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 10:3)
  • φησὶ δὲ Καλλισθένησ ἁλῶναι τὰσ Σάρδεισ ὑπὸ Κιμμερίων πρῶτον, εἶθ’ ὑπὸ Τρηρῶν καὶ Λυκίων, ὅπερ καὶ Καλλῖνον δηλοῦν τὸν τῆσ ἐλεγείασ ποιητήν, ὕστατα δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ Κύρου καὶ Κροίσου γενέσθαι ἅλωσιν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section4)
  • καὶ τὸ παλαιὸν δὲ συνέβη τοῖσ Μάγνησιν ὑπὸ Τρηρῶν ἄρδην ἀναιρεθῆναι, Κιμμερικοῦ ἔθνουσ, εὐτυχήσαντασ πολὺν χρόνον, τῷ δ’ ἑξῆσ ἔτει Μιλησίουσ κατασχεῖν τὸν τόπον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section9)
  • " καὶ ὑπὸ τῆσ Βιστονίδοσ δὲ καὶ τῆσ νῦν Ἀφνίτιδοσ λίμνησ ἐοίκασι κατακεκλύσθαι πόλεισ τινὲσ Θρᾳκῶν, οἱ δὲ καὶ Τρηρῶν, ὡσ συνοίκων τοῖσ Θρᾳξὶν ὄντων. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 36:8)
  • αἱ δὲ τῶν Καρῶν καὶ Τρηρῶν καὶ Τεύκρων μεταναστάσεισ καὶ Γαλατῶν, ὁμοῦ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἡγεμόνων οἱ ἐπὶ πολὺ ἐκτοπισμοί, Μάδυόσ τε τοῦ Σκυθικοῦ καὶ Τεαρκὼ τοῦ Αἰθίοποσ καὶ Κώβου τοῦ Τρηρὸσ καὶ Σεσώστριοσ καὶ Ψαμμιτίχου τῶν Αἰγυπτίων καὶ Περσῶν τῶν ἀπὸ Κύρου μέχρι Ξέρξου οὐχ ὁμοίωσ ἐν ἑτοίμῳ πᾶσίν εἰσιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 42:9)

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

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