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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

  • ἔνθα μὲν ἠίθεοι καὶ παρθένοι ἀλφεσίβοιαι ὠρχεῦντ’, ἀλλήλων ἐπὶ καρπῷ χεῖρασ ἔχουσαι, τούτοισ γὰρ ἐπιβάλλει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 10 1:2)
  • πολλαὶ δὲ νύμφαι καὶ παρθένοι ἀλφεσίβοιαι παίζομεν, ἀμφὶ δ’ ὅμιλοσ ἀπείριτοσ ἐστεφάνωτο. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 11:11)
  • ἔνθα μὲν ἠίθεοι καὶ παρθένοι ἀλφεσίβοιαι ὠρχεῦντ’ ἀλλήλων ἐπὶ καρπῷ χεῖρασ ἔχουσαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 14:3)
  • ἔνθα μὲν ἠί̈θεοι καὶ παρθένοι ἀλφεσίβοιαι ὀρχεῦντ’ ἀλλήλων ἐπὶ καρπῷ χεῖρασ ἔχοντεσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 57:2)

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

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