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ἄρνειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄρνειος

Structure: ἀρνει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)rno/s

Sense

  1. of a lamb or sheep, sheep

Examples

  • ἐν δ’ ἐρειπίοισ νεκρῶν ἐρειφθεὶσ ἕζετ’ ἀρνείου φόνου, κόμην ἀπρὶξ ὄνυξι συλλαβὼν χερί. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:15)
  • πήχυιον δ’ ἄρ’ ἔπειτα πέδῳ ἔνι βόθρον ὀρύξασ νήησε σχίζασ, ἐπὶ δ’ ἀρνειοῦ τάμε λαιμόν, αὐτόν τ’ εὖ καθύπερθε τανύσσατο· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 20:10)
  • ἐλθόντεσ δ’ ἠβαιὸν ἀπὸ σπείουσ τε καὶ αὐλῆσ πρῶτοσ ὑπ’ ἀρνειοῦ λυόμην, ὑπέλυσα δ’ ἑταίρουσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 47:2)

Synonyms

  1. of a lamb or sheep

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

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