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χλαμύδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χλαμύδιον χλαμύδιου

Structure: χλαμυδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shabby cloak

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

  • κακούργουσ ἐν τοῖσ θεάτροισ θεώμενα πολλάκισ ἐν χιτῶσι διαχρύσοισ καὶ χλαμυδίοισ ἁλουργοῖσ ἐστεφανωμένουσ καὶ πυρριχίζοντασ ἄγαται καὶ τέθηπεν ὡσ μακαρίουσ ἄχρι οὗ κεντούμενοι καὶ μαστιγούμενοι καὶ πῦρ ἀνιέντεσ ἐκ ‐ τῆσ ἀνθινῆσ ἐκείνησ καὶ πολυτελοῦσ ἐσθῆτοσ ὀφθῶσιν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 9 6:1)
  • ὑφίσταται δὲ τὴν πρᾶξιν Πελοπίδασ πρῶτοσ, εἶτα Μέλων καὶ Δαμοκλείδασ καὶ Θεόπομποσ, ἄνδρεσ οἴκων τε πρώτων καὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ τὰ ἄλλα μὲν φιλικῶσ καὶ πιστῶσ, ὑπὲρ δὲ δόξησ καὶ ἀνδρείασ ἀεὶ φιλονείκωσ ἔχοντεσ, γενόμενοι δὲ οἱ σύμπαντεσ δώδεκα, καὶ τοὺσ ἀπολειπομένουσ ἀσπασάμενοι, καὶ προπέμψαντεσ ἄγγελον τῷ Χάρωνι, προῆγον ἐν χλαμυδίοισ, σκύλακάσ τε θηρατικὰσ καὶ στάλικασ ἔχοντεσ, ὡσ μηδὲ εἷσ ὑποπτεύοι τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων καθ’ ὁδόν, ἀλλ’ ἀλύοντεσ ἄλλωσ πλανᾶσθαι καὶ κυνηγεῖν δοκοῖεν. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 8 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a shabby cloak

Related

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

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