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ἀλκίμαχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλκίμαχος ἀλκίμαχη ἀλκίμαχον

Structure: ἀλκιμαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)lkh/, ma/xomai

Sense

  1. bravely fighting

Examples

  • τῇ δὲ ἑβδόμῃ Εὔφορβόσ τε ὁ Ἀλκιμάχου καὶ Φίλαγροσ ὁ Κυνέου ἄνδρεσ τῶν ἀστῶν δόκιμοι προδιδοῦσι τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 101 3:3)
  • μετὰ δὲ Ιὤνασ κεχειρωμένουσ ἠνδραποδίσαντο καὶ Ἐρέτριαν Μῆδοι, προδόται δὲ ἐγένοντο οἱ εὐδοκιμοῦντεσ μάλιστα ἐν Ἐρετρίᾳ Φίλαγροσ Κυνέου καὶ Εὔφορβοσ Ἀλκιμάχου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. bravely fighting

Related

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

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