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ἀντικτόνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντικτόνος ἀντικτόνη ἀντικτόνον

Structure: ἀντικτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ktei/nw

Sense

  1. in requital for murder

Declension

First/Second 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

  • κἀγὼ κατελθών, τὸν πρὸ τοῦ φεύγων χρόνον, ἔκτεινα τὴν τεκοῦσαν, οὐκ ἀρνήσομαι, ἀντικτόνοισ ποιναῖσι φιλτάτου πατρόσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. in requital for murder

Similar forms

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

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