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ζεῦγλα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζεῦγλα ζεῦγλης

Structure: ζευγλ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for zeu/glh, Anth.

Sense

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

  • ἢ τοῦτο μὲν πολλὴν ἔχει τὴν διατριβὴν ὑπάγειν τοὺσ ἵππουσ τῇ ζεύγλῃ καὶ τὸ ἁρ́μα ἐπισκευάζειν, σὺ δὲ ἀλλὰ δελφῖνά μοί τινα τῶν ὠκέων παράστησον· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 211)
  • καί ῥ’ ὅγε δεξιτεροῖο βοὸσ κέρασ ἄκρον ἐρύσσασ εἷλκεν ἐπικρατέωσ παντὶ σθένει, ὄφρα πελάσσῃ ζεύγλῃ χαλκείῃ, τὸν δ’ ἐν χθονὶ κάββαλεν ὀκλάξ, ῥίμφα ποδὶ κρούσασ πόδα χάλκεον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:31)
  • τόσσ1’ ἀνύσασ δούλαν ζεῦγλαν ἐφηρμόσατο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 19 2:1)
  • θαλερὴ δ’ ἐμιαίνετο χαίτη ζεύγλησ ἐξεριποῦσα παρὰ ζυγὸν ἀμφοτέρωθεν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 44:7)
  • πᾶσα δὲ χαίτη ζεύγλησ ἐξεριποῦσα παρὰ ζυγὸν οὖδασ ἵκανεν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 19 31:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτ’ Αἰήτασ ἀδαμάντινον ἐν μέσσοισ ἄροτρον σκίμψατο καὶ βόασ, οἳ φλόγ’ ἀπὸ ξανθᾶν γενύων πνέον καιομένοιο πυρόσ, χαλκέαισ δ’ ὁπλαῖσ ἀράσσεσκον χθόν’ ἀμειβόμενοι, τοὺσ ἀγαγὼν ζεύγλᾳ πέλασσεν μοῦνοσ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 69:1)

Derived

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

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