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ὑοφόρβιον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: hyophorbion

Principal Part: ὑοφόρβιον ὑοφόρβιου

Structure: ὑοφορβι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a herd of swine

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

  • οὕτως δ ἐστὶ δαψιλῆ καὶ τὰ ποίμνια καὶ τὰ ὑοφόρβια ὥστε τῶν σάγων καὶ τῆς ταριχείας ἀφθονίαν μὴ τῇ Ῥώμῃ χορηγεῖσθαι μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς πλείστοις μέρεσι τῆς Ἰταλίας. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 6:17)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἡ γεωργουμένη γῆ πολλοὺς καὶ παντοίους ἐκφέρει καρπούς, καὶ αἱ ὗλαι τοσαύτην ἔχουσι βάλανον ὥστ ἐκ τῶν ἐντεῦθεν ὑοφορβίων ἡ Ῥώμη τρέφεται τὸ πλέον. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. a herd of swine

Similar forms

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

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