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βόστρυχος

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βόστρυχος

Etym.: bo/trus

Sense

  1. a curl or lock of hair
  2. anything twisted or wreathed, a flash of lightning

Examples

  • τρίτον δὲ βόστρυχόσ τισ ὣσ εἱλιγμένοσ, τὸ δ’ αὖ τέταρτον ἡ μὲν εἰσ ὀρθὸν μία, λοξαὶ δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ τρεῖσ κατεστηριγμέναι εἰσίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 80 2:2)
  • ἕκτον δ’ ὅπερ καὶ πρόσθεν εἶπον βόστρυχοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 80 5:1)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτ’ ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ ῥιπτέσθω μὲν πυρὸσ ἀμφήκησ βόστρυχοσ, αἰθὴρ δ’ ἐρεθιζέσθω βροντῇ σφακέλῳ τ’ ἀγρίων ἀνέμων· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests3)
  • βόστρυχοσ, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ διαβεβοστρυχωμένον παρὰ Ἀρχιλόχῳ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown139)
  • πᾶσαν δὲ τὴν ἤπειρον ἀποκείρασθαι, πάντωσ αὐτῆσ ὁ βόστρυχοσ οἴχεται· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:16)

Synonyms

  1. a curl or lock of hair

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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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