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ἀφάρτερος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: apharteros

Principal Part: ἀφάρτερος ἀφάρτερα ἀφάρτερον

Structure: ἀφαρτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: v. ἄφαρ II

Sense

  1. more fleet

Examples

  • τῶν δ ἵπποι μὲν ἐάσιν ἀφάρτεροι, οὐδὲ μὲν αὐτοὶ πλείονα ἴσασιν σέθεν αὐτοῦ μητίσασθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 28:16)

Synonyms

  1. more fleet

Similar forms

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

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