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ἀμνεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμνεῖος

Structure: ἀμνει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)mno/s

Sense

  1. of a lamb, a lambskin

Examples

  • Ἐν δὲ πεδιῳ πλατεῖ παρὰ τὸν Αμνειον ποταμὸν κατιδόντεσ ἀλλήλουσ ὅ τε Νικομήδησ καὶ οἱ τοῦ Μιθριδάτου στρατηγοὶ παρέταττον ἐσ μάχην, Νικομήδησ μὲν ἅπαντασ τοὺσ ἑαυτοῦ, Νεοπτόλεμοσ δὲ καὶ Ἀρχέλαοσ τοὺσ εὐζώνουσ μόνουσ, καὶ οὓσ Ἀρκαθίασ εἶχεν ἱππέασ καί τινα τῶν ἁρμάτων· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 4:1)

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

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