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ὑψαύχην

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψαύχην ὑψαύχενος

Structure: ὑψαυχην (Stem)

Sense

  1. carrying the neck high, stately, towering

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

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν Νικάνωρ μετὰ πάσησ ἀλαζονείασ ὑψαυχενῶν, διεγνώκει κοινὸν τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἰούδαν συστήσασθαι τρόπαιον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:6)
  • οἱ δ’ εὐθὺσ ἀπὸ τῆσ τροπῆσ εἰσ Βηίουσ συναθροισθέντεσ ᾑροῦντο δικτάτωρα Φούριον Κάμιλλον, ὃν εὐτυχῶν μὲν καὶ ὑψαυχενῶν ὁ δῆμοσ ἀπεσείσατο καὶ κατέβαλε, δίκῃ περιπεσόντα δημοσίων κλοπῶν· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 12 1:1)
  • ὁ γαῦροσ καὶ ὑψαυχενῶν . (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 81)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἀπόχρη σοι ταῦτ’, ὦ γενναῖε, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τι καλὸν ἐξειργασμένοσ ὑψαυχενῶν καὶ μεγαληγορῶν περιέρχῃ καὶ μηδὲν ὑφεῖναι τοῦ φρονήματοσ ἀπομαχόμενοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 46 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. carrying the neck high

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

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