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βοστρυχηδόν

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοστρυχηδόν

Etym.: bo/struxos

Sense

  1. like curls

Examples

  • "εἶχεν δὲ καὶ δᾷδα ἐν τῇ ἀριστερᾷ καὶ ξίφοσ ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ ὅσον εἰκοσάπηχυ, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἔνερθεν ὀφιόπουσ ἦν, τὰ δὲ ἄνω Γοργόνι ἐμφερήσ, τὸ βλέμμα φημὶ καὶ τὸ φρικῶδεσ τῆσ προσόψεωσ, καὶ ἀντὶ τῆσ κόμησ τοὺσ δράκοντασ βοστρυχηδὸν καθεῖτο εἰλουμένουσ περὶ τὸν αὐχένα καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων ἐνίουσ ἐσπειραμένουσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 20:4)
  • ἡ γοῦν ἀσπὶσ ἡ τοῦ αὐτοκράτοροσ ὅλῳ βιβλίῳ μόγισ ἐξηρμηνεύθη αὐτῷ, καὶ Γοργὼν ἐπὶ τοῦ ὀμφαλοῦ καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτῆσ ἐκ κυανοῦ καὶ λευκοῦ καὶ μέλανοσ καὶ ζώνη ἰριοειδὴσ καὶ δράκοντεσ ἑλικηδὸν καὶ βοστρυχηδόν. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 194)

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

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