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ἀργύρεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργύρεος ἀργύρεη ἀργύρεον

Structure: ἀργυρε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/rguros

Sense

  1. silver, of silver

Examples

  • ἡμῖν δὲ κρητῆρ’ οἰνοχόοι θέραπεσ κιρνάντων προχύταισιν ἐν ἀργυρέοισ, ὁ δὲ χρυσοῦ δεῖνον ἔχων χειροῖν ἱζέτω εἰσ ἔδαφοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 8 1:2)
  • ἡμῖν δὲ κρητῆρ’ οἰνοχόοι θέραπεσ κιρνάντων προχύταισιν ἐν ἀργυρέοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 943)
  • πὰρ μέν οἱ ὡρ́ια κεῖται, ὅσα δρυὸσ ἄκρα φέρονται, πὰρ δ’ ἁπαλοὶ κᾶποι πεφυλαγμένοι ἐν ταλαρίσκοισ ἀργυρέοισ, Συρίω δὲ μύρω χρύσει’ ἀλάβαστρα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 134)

Synonyms

  1. silver

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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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