Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀλκίφρων

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλκίφρων

Etym.: a)lkh/, frh/n

Sense

  1. stout-hearted

Examples

  • Ἀλκίφρων δὲ ὁ Μαιάνδριοσ περὶ τὴν Ἐφεσίαν φησὶν εἶναι ὀρείαν κώμην τὴν πρότερον μὲν καλουμένην Λητοῦσ, νῦν δὲ Λατώρειαν ἀπὸ Λατωρείασ Ἀμαζόνοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 57 1:4)
  • ἀπρόσοιστοσ γὰρ ὁ Περσᾶν στρατὸσ ἀλκίφρων τε λαόσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. stout-hearted

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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