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ὑφορβός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑφορβός ὑφορβοῦ

Structure: ὑφορβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = suforbo/s, Od.

Sense

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

  • "Ὀδυσεὺσ καὶ δῖοσ ὑφορβὸσ ἐντύνοντ’ ἄριστον κειαμένω πῦρ," καὶ ἅπαξ ἐν Ἰλιάδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 193)
  • τὼ δ’ αὖτ’ ἐν κλισίῃσ Ὀδυσεὺσ καὶ δῖοσ ὑφορβὸσ ἐντύνοντ’ ἄριστον ἅμ’ ἠοῖ κειαμένω πῦρ ἔκπεμψάν τε νομῆασ ἅμ’ ἀγρομένοισι σύεσσι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 314)
  • οὐδ’ Ὀδυσεὺσ ἑκατόν τε καὶ εἴκοσι μῆνασ ἀλαθεὶσ πάντασ ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπουσ, Αἴδαν τ’ εἰσ ἔσχατον ἐλθὼν ζωόσ, καὶ σπήλυγγα φυγὼν ὀλοοῖο Κύκλωποσ, δηναιὸν κλέοσ ἔσχεν, ἐσιγάθη δ’ ἂν ὑφορβὸσ Εὔμαιοσ, καὶ βουσὶ Φιλοίτιοσ ἀμφ’ ἀγελαίαισ ἔργον ἔχων, αὐτόσ τε περίσπλαγχνοσ Λαέρτησ, εἰ μή σφεασ ὤνασαν Ἰάονοσ ἀνδρὸσ ἀοιδαί. (Theocritus, Idylls, 24)
  • ὣσ εἰπὼν κλισίηνδ’ ἡγήσατο δῖοσ ὑφορβόσ, εἷσεν δ’ εἰσαγαγών, ῥῶπασ δ’ ὑπέχευε δασείασ, ἐστόρεσεν δ’ ἐπὶ δέρμα ἰονθάδοσ ἀγρίου αἰγόσ, αὐτοῦ ἐνεύναιον, μέγα καὶ δασύ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 6:1)
  • τὸν δ’ ἀπαμειβόμενοσ προσεφώνεε δῖοσ ὑφορβόσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 31:1)

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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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