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ὠκύτοκος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκύτοκος ὠκύτοκη ὠκύτοκον

Structure: ὠκυτοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quickly, quick birth, easy delivery

Examples

  • ταύτασ μέν νυν τῇ Εἰλειθυίῃ ἀποφερούσασ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὠκυτόκου τὸν ἐτάξαντο φόρον ἀπικέσθαι, τὴν δὲ Ἄργην τε καὶ τὴν Ὦπιν ἅμα αὐτοῖσι θεοῖσι ἀπικέσθαι λέγουσι καὶ σφι τιμὰσ ἄλλασ δεδόσθαι πρὸσ σφέων· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 35 2:1)
  • οὐδ’ ἀύ̈πνοι κρῆναι μινύθουσιν Κηφισοῦ νομάδεσ ῥεέθρων, ἀλλ’ αἰὲν ἐπ’ ἤματι ὠκυτόκοσ πεδίων ἐπινίσσεται ἀκηράτῳ σὺν ὄμβρῳ στερνούχου χθονόσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 12)

Derived

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

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