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ἀλφεσίβοιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλφεσίβοιος

Structure: ἀλφεσιβοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)lfa/nw, bou=s

Sense

  1. bringing in oxen, whose parents receive many oxen, much-courted

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

  • ἐπικατάφοροσ δὲ ὢν ὁ ποιητὴσ οὗτοσ ἐπὶ τὰ ἄνθη καὶ ἐν Ἀλφεσιβοίᾳ φησίν καὶ σώματοσ μὲν ὄψιν ἀντηυγάζετο στίλβουσα λευκῷ χρωτὶ καὶ διαπρεπήσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 881)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀλκμαίων ἡνίκα τὴν μητέρα ἀποκτείνασ ἔφυγεν ἐξ Ἄργουσ, τότε ἐσ τὴν Ψωφῖδα ἐλθών, Φηγίαν ἔτι ἀπὸ τοῦ Φηγέωσ ὀνομαζομένην, συνῴκησεν Ἀλφεσιβοίᾳ τῇ Φηγέωσ θυγατρὶ καὶ αὐτῇ δῶρα ὡσ τὸ εἰκὸσ καὶ ἄλλα καὶ τὸν ὁρ́μον δίδωσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 11:1)

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

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