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ἀγχίαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγχίαλος ἀγχίαλη ἀγχίαλον

Structure: ἀγχιαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls

Sense

  1. near the sea, sea-girt

Examples

  • καὶ τὰσ ἀγχιάλουσ ἐκράτυνε μεσάκτουσ, Λῆμνον, Ἰκάρου θ’ ἕδοσ, καὶ Ῥόδον ἠδὲ Κνίδον Κυπρίασ τε πόλεισ, Πάφον, ἠδὲ Σόλουσ, Σαλαμῖνά τε, τᾶσ νῦν ματρόπολισ τῶνδ’ αἰτία στεναγμῶν. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. near the sea

Related

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

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