Hellas Alive Dictionary - αμφιτειχης

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφιτειχής ἀμφιτειχές

Structure: ἀμφιτειχη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tei=xos

Third declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἀμφιτειχής ἀμφιτειχούς	ἀμφιτειχέστερος ἀμφιτειχεστέρου	ἀμφιτειχέστατος ἀμφιτειχεστάτου
Adverb	ἀμφιτειχέως	ἀμφιτειχέστερον	ἀμφιτειχέστατα

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.

γείτονεσ δὲ καρδίασ μέριμναι ζωπυροῦσι τάρβοσ τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεών, δράκοντασ ὥσ τισ τέκνων ὑπερδέδοικεν λεχαίων δυσευνάτορασ πάντρομοσ πελειάσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 12)

encompassing the walls
- ἀμφίβληστρον (encompassment)
- δυσπερίληπτος (hard to encompass)

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

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