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ὠμηστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠμηστής ὠμηστοῦ

Structure: ὠμηστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: w)mo/s, e)sqi/w

Sense

  1. eating raw flesh, savageness, brutality

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

  • καὶ λέγονται κατά τι λόγιον, τοῦ μάντεωσ Εὐφραντίδου κελεύσαντοσ, ὠμηστῇ Διονύσῳ καθιερευθῆναι. (Plutarch, , chapter 9 1:4)
  • ἀπειθεῖν, τῶν μὲν παλαιῶν προφέροντεσ Μενοικέα τόν Κρέοντοσ καὶ Μακαρίαν τὴν Ἡρακλέουσ, τῶν δ’ ὕστερον Φερεκύδην τε τόν σοφὸν ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων ἀναιρεθέντα καὶ τὴν δορὰν αὐτοῦ κατά τι λόγιον ὑπὸ τῶν βασιλέων φρουρουμένην, Λεωνίδαν τε τῷ χρησμῷ τρόπον τινὰ προθυσάμενον ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ, ἔτι δὲ τοὺσ ὑπὸ Θεμιστοκλέουσ σφαγιασθέντασ Ὠμηστῇ Διονύσῳ πρὸ τῆσ ἐν Σαλαμῖνι ναυμαχίασ· (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 21 2:2)
  • τούτουσ ἰδὼν Εὐφραντίδησ ὁ μάντισ, ὡσ ἅμα μὲν ἀνέλαμψεν ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν μέγα καὶ περιφανὲσ πῦρ, ἅμα δὲ πταρμὸσ ἐκ δεξιῶν ἐσήμηνε, τὸν Θεμιστοκλέα δεξιωσάμενοσ ἐκέλευσε τῶν νεανίσκων κατάρξασθαι καὶ καθιερεῦσαι πάντασ ὠμηστῇ Διονύσῳ προσευξάμενον· (Plutarch, , chapter 13 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. eating raw flesh

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

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