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ψῆγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψῆγμα

Structure: ψηγματ (Stem)

Etym.: yh/xw

Sense

  1. that which is rubbed or scraped off, shavings, scrapings, chips, gold dust

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

  • οὐ γὰρ τὰ ἐκ Περσῶν καὶ Βαβυλῶνοσ λαβοῦσα χρήματα ἢ μέταλλα ἐργασαμένη ἢ Πακτωλὸν ἔχουσα χρυσοῦ ψῆγμα καταφέροντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 362)
  • ὁ χρυσαμοιβὸσ δ’ Ἄρησ σωμάτων καὶ ταλαντοῦχοσ ἐν μάχῃ δορὸσ πυρωθὲν ἐξ Ἰλίου φίλοισι πέμπει βαρὺ ψῆγμα δυσδάκρυτον ἀν‐ τήνοροσ σποδοῦ γεμί‐ ζων λέβητασ εὐθέτουσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 3 1:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἀπορρέον πνεῦμα τῆσ χιόνοσ ἐστὶ μὲν οἱο͂ν ἀθὴρ τοῦ πάγου καὶ ψῆγμα λεπτομερέστατον, ἔχει δέ τι τομὸν καὶ διαιρετικὸν οὐ σαρκὸσ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀργυρῶν καὶ χαλκῶν ἀγγείων ὁρῶμεν γὰρ ταῦτα μὴ στέγοντα τὴν χιόνα· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 25:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον, ὃσ ὑμῖν δείξει τι τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων, καὶ πρῶτον ἁπάντων, ἂν δύνηται, παρασκευάσει φρονεῖν ὑμᾶσ, ὅτι τούτων ἕνεκεν, ὧν εἶπον, οὐκ ἐστὲ εὐδαίμονεσ, οὐδ’ ἂν ὁ Νεῖλοσ ὑμῶν διέρχηται τὴν πόλιν τῆσ Κασταλίασ γενόμενοσ διαυγέστεροσ, οὐδ’ ἂν ὁ Πακτωλὸσ ἐνθάδε φανεὶσ μὴ κατὰ ψῆγμα τὸ χρυσίον ὑμῖν φέρῃ, καθάπερ φασὶ Λυδοῖσ πρότερον,ἀλλ’ ἄθρουν ὥσπερ ἰλύν, μηδ’ ἂν Αἴγυπτον ἢ Βαβυλῶνα τῇ πολυτελείᾳ τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων ὑπερβάλλησθε. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 30:4)
  • χρυσοφοροῦσι δ’ ἐκ τοῦ Καυκάσου πηγαὶ πολλαὶ ψῆγμα ἀφανέσ· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 7:2)
  • "καὶ τῇ μὲν ἀριστερᾷ τὸ τοῦ μειρακίου τριχωμάτιον ἐπικοσμῶν, τῇ δεξιᾷ δὲ Φωκαικὸν ψῆγμά τι διακινῶν καὶ αἰωρῶν ἡδὺσ ἦν, ἀλλ’ οὖν καὶ μυίασ ἀποσοβῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 705)
  • ἐδόκει γὰρ μέγα καὶ καλὸν πεδίον ἐπιὼν ὁ Ἀντίγονοσ ψῆγμά τι χρυσίου κατασπείρειν· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 4 2:1)

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

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