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τροχιλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τροχιλία

Structure: τροχιλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the sheaf of a pulley, roller of a windlass

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

  • οὐκοῦν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ὁ μὴ τοιοῦτοσ αὖ, ὅσῳ ἂν φαυλότεροσ ᾖ, πάντα τε μᾶλλον διηγήσεται καὶ οὐδὲν ἑαυτοῦ ἀνάξιον οἰήσεται εἶναι, ὥστε πάντα ἐπιχειρήσει μιμεῖσθαι σπουδῇ τε καὶ ἐναντίον πολλῶν, καὶ ἃ νυνδὴ ἐλέγομεν, βροντάσ τε καὶ ψόφουσ ἀνέμων τε καὶ χαλαζῶν καὶ ἀξόνων τε καὶ τροχιλιῶν, καὶ σαλπίγγων καὶ αὐλῶν καὶ συρίγγων καὶ πάντων ὀργάνων φωνάσ, καὶ ἔτι κυνῶν καὶ προβάτων καὶ ὀρνέων φθόγγουσ· (Plato, Republic, book 3 210:1)
  • λοιπὸν ὅταν ἐγγίσωσι τῆσ χρείασ, ἐνδεδεμένων τῶν κάλων εἰσ τὴν κορυφὴν τῆσ κλίμακοσ, ἕλκουσι διὰ τῶν τροχιλιῶν τούτουσ ἑστῶτεσ ἐν ταῖσ πρύμναισ· (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 4 6:1)
  • καὶ τούτοισ ἴσοι περί τε τοὺσ ἱστοὺσ καὶ τὰσ λιθοφόρουσ κεραίασ, ἦσαν δὲ καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ἱστοὺσ ἐν τοῖσ καρχησίοισ οὖσι χαλκοῖσ ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ πρώτου τρεῖσ ἄνδρεσ, εἶθ’ ἑξῆσ καθ’ ἕνα λειπόμενοι τούτοισ δ’ ἐν πλεκτοῖσ γυργάθοισ διὰ τροχιλίων εἰσ τὰ θωράκια λίθοι παρεβάλλοντο καὶ βέλη διὰ τῶν παίδων, ἄγκυραι δὲ ἦσαν ξύλιναι μέν τέτταρεσ, σιδηραῖ δ’ ὀκτώ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 43 3:1)

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

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