Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βοτρυδόν

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοτρυδόν

Etym.: bo/trus

Sense

  1. like a bunch of grapes, in clusters

Examples

  • πλήρησ μὲν ἡ ἄνοδοσ ὠθιζομένων ἐπὶ τὰσ δύο μνᾶσ, ὡσ ἤκουσαν μόνον παρὰ δὲ τὸ Πελασγικὸν ἄλλοι καὶ κατὰ τὸ Ἀσκληπιεῖον ἕτεροι καὶ παρὰ τὸν Ἄρειον πάγον ἔτι πλείουσ, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὸν Τάλω τάφον, οἱ δὲ καὶ πρὸσ τὸ Ἀνακεῖον προσθέμενοι κλίμακασ ἀνέρπουσι βομβηδὸν νὴ Δία καὶ βοτρυδὸν ἑσμοῦ δίκην, ἵνα καὶ καθ’ Ὅμηρον εἴπω· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 42:2)
  • βοτρυδὸν δὲ πέτονται ἐπ’ ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσι . (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 525)
  • τίκτει δὲ διὰ τοῦ λεγομένου φυσητῆροσ, ὅσ ἐστι πόροσ τῷ σώματι, καὶ τίκτει ᾠὰ βοτρυδόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 101 2:2)
  • ἠύ̈τε ἔθνεα εἶσι μελισσάων ἁδινάων πέτρησ ἐκ γλαφυρῆσ αἰεὶ νέον ἐρχομενάων, βοτρυδὸν δὲ πέτονται ἐπ’ ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσιν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 10:3)

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

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