Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

καταβλητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταβλητικός καταβλητική καταβλητικόν

Structure: καταβλητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kataba/llw

Sense

  1. fit for throwing off horseback

Declension

First/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

  • ὥστε τὰ πολλὰ ἐκεῖνα καὶ καταβλητικὰ τοῦ μεγέθουσ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ οὐκ ἀναγκαίωσ αὐτῷ παρέλκεσθαι, ὅτι κατὰ τὸν Τρωικὸν πόλεμον οὔπω σύμπασα ἐκαλεῖτο ἑνὶ ὀνόματι ἡ Ἑλλάσ, καὶ ὅτι περαιοῦσθαι ναυσὶν ἐπ’ ἀλλήλουσ οἱ τροφῆσ ἀπορούμενοι ἤρξαντο καὶ προσπίπτοντεσ πόλεσιν ἀτειχίστοισ καὶ κατὰ κώμασ οἰκουμέναισ ἡρ́παζον καὶ τὸ πλεῖστον τοῦ βίου ἐντεῦθεν ἐποιοῦντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 19 3:1)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ καταβλητικόν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 14:2)

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

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