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ἁλίρρυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁλίρρυτος

Structure: ἁλιρρυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls, r(e/w

Sense

  1. washed by the sea

Examples

  • αἲ γὰρ δυσπαλάμωσ ὄλοιο δι’ ἁλίρρυτον ἄλσοσ, κατὰ Σαρπηδόνιον χῶμα πολύψαμμον ἀλαθεὶσ Εὐρεί̈αισιν αὔραισ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 22)
  • Λητοΐδη, σὺ μὲν ἔσχεσ ἁλίρρυτον αὐχένα Δήλου, κοῦρε Διὸσ μεγάλου, θέσφατα πᾶσι λέγων· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 551)

Synonyms

  1. washed by the sea

Similar forms

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

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