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βουφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βουφάγος

Structure: βουφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fagei=n

Sense

  1. ox-eating

Examples

  • τοιοῦτον οὖν αὐτὸν ὑποστησάμενοι ταῖσ ἀδηφαγίαισ καὶ τῶν ὀρνέων ἀποδεδώκασιν αὐτῷ τὸν λάρον τὸν προσαγορευόμενον βουφάγον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10 2:4)
  • λέγουσι δὲ καὶ ὡσ ἐν Φολόῃ τῷ ὄρει τοξεύσειεν Ἄρτεμισ Βουφάγον ἔργα τολμήσαντα οὐχ ὅσια ἐσ τὴν θεόν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 25:4)

Synonyms

  1. ox-eating

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

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