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τριώβολον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριώβολον τριώβολου

Structure: τριωβολ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: o)bolo/s

Sense

  1. a three-obol-piece, a half-drachma, the pay of the dicasts
  2. the pay of the marine soldiery

Declension

Second 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

  • πολλοὶ γὰρ οἱ κἂν ἐπὶ τριωβόλῳ διαρραγῆναι ἕτοιμοι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 15:9)
  • οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν, σάλπιγγι τὴν σάλπιγγα, τῷ κήρυκι τὸν βοῶντα, κόπῳ κόπον, ψόφῳ ψόφον, τριωβόλῳ δὲ πόρνην, αὐθαδίαν αὐθαδίᾳ, Καλλίστρατον μαγείρῳ, στάσιν στάσει, μάχῃ μάχην, ὑπωπίοισ δὲ πύκτην, πόνῳ πόνον, δίκην δίκῃ, γυναικὶ τὴν γυναῖκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 20 1:5)

Related

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

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