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βόρβορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βόρβορος βόρβορᾱ βόρβορον

Structure: βορβορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. mud, mire

Examples

  • καὶ ἔρριψαν αὐτὸν εἰσ λάκκον Μελχίου υἱοῦ τοῦ βασιλέωσ, ὃσ ἦν ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τῆσ φυλακῆσ, καὶ ἐχάλασαν αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸν λάκκον, καὶ ἐν τῷ λάκκῳ οὐκ ἦν ὕδωρ ἀλλ’ ἢ βόρβοροσ, καὶ ἦν ἐν τῷ βορβόρῳ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 45:6)
  • "πέδασ ἐν βορβόρῳ κάθηται. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 25:4)
  • δεῖ γὰρ τὸν χαρίεντα μήτε ῥυπᾶν μήτε αὐχμεῖν μήτε βορβόρῳ χαίρειν καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 6 1:4)
  • ἐν ἄλλοισ δὲ πάλιν ὁ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ γίνεσθαι αὐτὰσ οὔτε ᾠοτοκούσασ οὔτε ζωοτοκούσασ ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἐξ ὀχείασ, ἀλλ’ ἐν τῷ βορβόρῳ καὶ τῇ ἰλύι σήψεωσ γινομένησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 52 2:3)
  • βορβόρῳ δ’ ὕδωρ λαμπρὸν μιαίνων οὔποθ’ εὑρήσεισ ποτόν. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 7:11)

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

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