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τροπωτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τροπωτήρ τροπωτῆρος

Structure: τροπωτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: from tropo/w

Sense

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

  • πρὸσ Διὸσ, ὦ Πλάτων, εἰ δὲ δὴ σοῦ τισ λαβόμενοσ κατηγόρει λέγων ὅσα διέπλεισ ἐν ὁλκάσι τὴν θάλατταν καὶ πλάνην ὁπόσην πεπλάνησαι περὶ τὴν χάρυβδιν, ὁμοῦ τοῖσ ναύταισ ἐσκηνωμένοσ καὶ δεόμενοσ τῆσ κώπησ καὶ τοῦ τροπωτῆροσ, καὶ ταῦθ’ οὕτω δυσχεραίνων τὰ ναυτικὰ καὶ τοῖσ ὁπλίταισ προσκείμενοσ, ἆρ’ οὐκ ἐκεῖνο μὲν οὐκ ἔμελλεσ ἐρεῖν, ἅτε ὢν μουσικὸσ καὶ πάλαι κατεγνωκὼσ τοῦ ῥήματοσ, τὸ ποῖον δὴ λέγω, ὦ μοχθηρὲ μελαγχολᾷσ, εἶπεσ δ’ ἂν οὑτωσί πωσ, ὦ δαιμόνιε, ἐγὼ ταῦτα ἔπραττον, οὐ τὸν τῶν ναυτῶν βίον ᾑρημένοσ, οὐδ’ ἐκείνουσ ἀντὶ τῶν ὁπλιτῶν κοσμῶν, οὐδ’ ἐν γήρᾳ ναυτίλλεσθαι μεταμανθάνων, οὐδὲ τοῖσ κατ’ ἤπειρον πράγμασι λυμαινόμενοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἦν ἄλλωσ ἐλθεῖν εἰσ Σικελίαν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 94:7)

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

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