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αἰγίβοτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰγίβοτος

Structure: αἰγιβοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai)/c, bo/skw

Sense

  1. browsed by goats

Examples

  • πότερον οὖν ταύτην ἐπαινεῖσ μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν αἰγίβοτον Ἰθάκην καὶ τραχεῖαν, ἣ μόλισ ἀπ’ ἔργων τε πολλῶν καὶ διὰ πόνων μεγάλων μικρὰ καὶ γλίσχρα καὶ μηδενὸσ ἄξια τοῖσ γεωργοῦσιν ἀναδίδωσι; (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 3 4:1)
  • οὐδὲ τῶν ἐγκάρπων, ἀλλ’ ἣν μόνον ἐπαινέσαι θέλων αἰγίβοτον εἴρηκεν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:4)

Synonyms

  1. browsed by goats

Related

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

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