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βόθρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βόθρος βόθρᾱ βόθρον

Structure: βοθρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from the same Root as baqu/s: cp. also Lat. fodio.

Sense

  1. any hole or pit dug in the ground, a natural trough, a hole

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν ἐπειδὰν ὀρωρυγμένοι ὦσιν οἱ βόθροι, ὁπηνίκα δεῖ τιθέναι ἑκάτερα τὰ φυτὰ ἤδη εἶδεσ; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 19 8:5)
  • ἔνθα δὲ τὸ πῦρ ἐκαίετο, διατηκομένησ τῆσ χιόνοσ βόθροι ἐγένοντο μεγάλοι ἔστε ἐπὶ τὸ δάπεδον· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 7:2)
  • δείκνυνται δὲ καὶ βόθροι τρεῖσ, οὓσ φύσασ καλοῦσιν, ὅσον τετταράκοντα ἀλλήλων διεστῶτεσ σταδίουσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 18:6)

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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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