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βῆσσα

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βῆσσα

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a wooded comb or glen

Examples

  • Βῆσσα ποτήριον παρ’ Ἀλεξανδρεῦσι πλατύτερον ἐκ τῶν κάτω μερῶν, ἐστενωμένον ἄνωθεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 27 1:1)
  • ἔνθεν καρπαλίμωσ προσέβησ πρὸσ δειράδα θύων ἵκεο δ’ ἐσ Κρίσην ὑπὸ Παρνησὸν νιφόεντα, κνημὸν πρὸσ Ζέφυρον τετραμμένον, αὐτὰρ ὕπερθεν πέτρη ἐπικρέμαται, κοίλη δ’ ὑποδέδρομε βῆσσα, τρηχεῖ’· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 12:3)
  • καὶ Βῆσσα δ’ οὐκ ἔστι, δρυμώδησ τισ τόποσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 4 8:4)

Related

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

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