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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

  • "μαῖ’, ἄγε δή μοι οἶνον ἐν ἀμφιφορεῦσιν ἄφυσσον ἡδύν, ὅτισ μετὰ τὸν λαρώτατοσ ὃν σὺ φυλάσσεισ κεῖνον ὀιομένη τὸν κάμμορον, εἴ ποθεν ἔλθοι διογενὴσ Ὀδυσεὺσ θάνατον καὶ κῆρασ ἀλύξασ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 35:1)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεί ῥ’ ὄμοσέν τε τελεύτησέν τε τὸν ὁρ́κον, αὐτίκ’ ἔπειτά οἱ οἶνον ἐν ἀμφιφορεῦσιν ἄφυσσεν, ἐν δέ οἱ ἄλφιτα χεῦεν ἐϋρραφέεσσι δοροῖσι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 39:2)
  • πολλὸν γὰρ ἐν ἀμφιφορεῦσιν ἕκαστοι ἠφύσαμεν Κικόνων. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 12:3)

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

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