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ἀποτείχισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποτείχισμα

Structure: ἀποτειχισματ (Stem)

Etym.: From a)poteixi/zw

Sense

  1. a wall built to blockade, lines of blockade

Examples

  • ἅμα δὲ καὶ Φαρνάβαζοσ, οὐ δυνάμενοσ συμμεῖξαι πρὸσ τὸν Ἱπποκράτην διὰ τὴν στενοπορίαν, τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ τῶν ἀποτειχισμάτων ἐγγὺσ ὄντων, ἀπεχώρησεν εἰσ τὸ Ἡράκλειον τὸ τῶν Καλχηδονίων, οὗ ἦν αὐτῷ τὸ στρατόπεδον. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a wall built to blockade

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

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