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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

  • μήποτε πάλιν ἴδοιμ’ ἀλφεσίβοιον ὕδωρ, ἔνθεν ἀεξόμενον ζώφυτον αἷμα βροτοῖσι θάλλει. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 11)

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

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