Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀρκύστατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρκύστατος ἀρκύστατη ἀρκύστατον

Structure: ἀρκυστατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i(/sthmi

Sense

  1. beset with nets
  2. a place beset with nets, a snare

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

  • τίνων ποτ’ ἀνδρῶν ἐν μέσοισ ἀρκυστάτοισ πέπτωχ’ ὁ τλήμων; (Sophocles, episode 1:13)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐξαλύξασ οἴχεται νεβροῦ δίκην, καὶ ταῦτα κούφωσ ἐκ μέσων ἀρκυστάτων ὤρουσεν ὑμῖν ἐγκατιλλώψασ μέγα. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 9:3)

Synonyms

  1. beset with nets

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

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