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βαρυαχής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βαρυαχής βαρυαχές

Structure: βαρυαχη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/xos

Sense

  1. heavy with woe

Examples

  • εἰ θέμισ ἐστί μοι τὰν ἀφανῆ θεὸν καὶ σὲ λιταῖσ σεβίζειν, ἐννυχίων ἄναξ, Αἰδωνεῦ Αἰδωνεῦ, λίσσωμαι ἄπονα μήτ’ ἐπὶ βαρυαχεῖ ξένον ἐξανύσαι μόρῳ τὰν παγκευθῆ κάτω νεκρῶν πλάκα καὶ Στύγιον δόμον. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 11)

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

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