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ἀμφιφορεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφιφορεύς

Structure: ἀμφιφορευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. a large jar with two handles

Declension

Third 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

  • μὴ ἐμὰ σῶν ἀπάνευθε τιθήμεναι ὀστέ’, Ἀχιλλεῦ,ἀλλ’ ἵνα πέρ σε καὶ αὐτὸν ὁμοίη γαῖα κεκεύθῃ,χρυσέῳ ἐν ἀμφιφορεῖ, τόν τοι πόρε πότνια μήτηρ,ὡσ ὁμοῦ ἐτράφομέν περ ἐν ὑμετέροισι δόμοισιν,εὖτέ με τυτθὸν ἐόντα Μενοίτιοσ ἐξ Ὀπόεντοσἤγαγεν ὑμέτερόνδ’ ἀνδροκτασίησ ὕπο λυγρῆσ,ἤματι τῷ, ὅτε παῖδα κατέκτανον Ἀμφιδάμαντοσ,νήπιοσ, οὐκ ἐθέλων, ἀμφ’ ἀστραγάλοισι χολωθείσ· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1496)

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

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