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ζώπυρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζώπυρον ζώπυρου

Structure: ζωπυρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. a spark, ember

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

  • εἰ δὲ μὴ αἰσχρὸν ἦν ἐμὲ λέγειν τὰ τοιαῦτα, κἄν τι προσέθηκα, ὅπερ σύ, εἰ θέλεισ, παρὰ Ζωπύρου τοῦ παιδαγωγοῦ ἂν μάθοισ ἀληθὲσ ὄν. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 26:3)
  • ἀλλά, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, τὸ τοῦ Δαρείου πάνυ καλῶσ ἔχον ἐστίν, ὃ εἶπεν ἐπὶ τοῦ Ζωπύρου· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 53:6)
  • Ἔνιοι δὲ τὰ βιβλί’ αὐτοῦ οὐκ αὐτοῦ εἶναι, ἀλλὰ Διονυσίου καὶ Ζωπύρου τῶν Κολοφωνίων, οἳ τοῦ παίζειν ἕνεκα συγγράφοντεσ ἐδίδοσαν αὐτῷ ὡσ εὖ δυναμένῳ διαθέσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. h'. MENIPPOS 2:5)
  • ὅτι Μεγαβύζου τοῦ καὶ Ζωπύρου, φίλου ὄντοσ Δαρείου τοῦ βασιλέωσ, μαστιγώσαντοσ δ’ ἑαυτὸν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸ πρόσωπον ἀκρωτήρια ἀποκόψαντοσ διὰ τὸ αὐτόμολον γενέσθαι καὶ Βαβυλῶνα προδοῦναι Πέρσαισ, φασὶ βαρέωσ φέρειν τὸν Δαρεῖον καὶ εἰπεῖν βούλεσθαι τὸν Μεγάβυζον, εἰ δυνατὸν ἦν, ἄρτιον γενόμενον ἢ δέκα Βαβυλῶνασ λαβεῖν ὑπὸ τὴν ἐξουσίαν, καίπερ ἀπράκτου τῆσ ἐπιθυμίασ οὔσησ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri x, chapter 19 5:1)
  • Ζωπύρου δὲ οὐδεὶσ ἀγαθοεργίην Περσέων ὑπερεβάλετο παρὰ Δαρείῳ κριτῇ οὔτε τῶν ὕστερον γενομένων οὔτε τῶν πρότερον, ὅτι μὴ Κῦροσ μοῦνοσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 160 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a spark

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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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