Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀμφίρυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίρυτος

Structure: ἀμφιρυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w

Sense

  1. flowed around, sea-girt

Examples

  • Τελαμώνιε παῖ, τῆσ ἀμφιρύτου Σαλαμῖνοσ ἔχων βάθρον ἀγχιάλου, σὲ μὲν εὖ πράσσοντ’ ἐπιχαίρω· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode, anapests1)
  • Ἐκ Σάμου ἀμφιρύτου τεῦξ’ ἐλεγεῖον Ιὤν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 5)

Synonyms

  1. flowed around

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

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