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ἀπόκροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόκροτος ἀπόκροτη ἀπόκροτον

Structure: ἀποκροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: krote/w

Sense

  1. beaten or trodden hard

Examples

  • ἀχανὲσ γὰρ ἦν τὸ πεδίον, οὔτε βαθύτερον οὔτε ἀπόκροτον καὶ στερεόν, ἀλλὰ θινῶδεσ καὶ μεστὸν ἁλμυρίδοσ αὐχμηρᾶσ, ἢ τοσούτων μὲν ἵππων τοσούτων δὲ ἀνθρώπων ξαινομένη δρόμοισ ὑπὸ τὸν τῆσ μάχησ καιρόν ἐξήνθει κόνιν ὥσπερ ἄσβεστον, ἀπολευκαίνουσαν τὸν ἀέρα καὶ τὰσ ὄψεισ διαθολοῦσαν. (Plutarch, chapter 16 6:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ῥᾴδιον τῷ ἵππῳ οὐδ’ ἀσφαλὲσ ἐν τῷ τάχει ὄντα κάμπτειν ἐν μικρῷ, ἄλλωσ τε κἂν ἀπόκροτον ἢ ὀλισθηρὸν ᾖ τὸ χωρίον. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 7 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. beaten or trodden hard

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

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