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ἀμφιβώμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφιβώμιος ἀμφιβώμιη ἀμφιβώμιον

Structure: ἀμφιβωμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bwmo/s

Sense

  1. round the altar

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

  • σφαγαὶ δ’ ἀμφιβώμιοι Φρυγῶν, ἔν τε δεμνίοισ καράτομοσ ἐρημία νεανίδων στέφανον ἔφερεν Ἑλλάδι κουροτρόφον, Φρυγῶν πατρίδι πένθη. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, epode5)

Synonyms

  1. round the altar

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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