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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

  • ἐνταῦθα ἀνὴρ Φενεάτησ αὐτὸν Βουφάγοσ καὶ ἡ τοῦ Βουφάγου γυνὴ Πρώμνη περιεῖπόν τε εὖ καὶ ἀποθανόντα ἐκ τοῦ τραύματοσ ἔθαψαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 15:5)
  • τοῦ Βουφάγου δὲ περὶ τὰσ πηγὰσ ὁρ́οι πρὸσ Μεγαλοπολίτασ Ἡραιεῦσίν εἰσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 13:3)
  • Μεγαλοπολίταισ δὲ καὶ Ἡραιεῦσι κατὰ τὰ εἰρημένα ἤδη μοι τοῦ Βουφάγου ποταμοῦ περὶ τὰσ πηγάσ εἰσιν ὁρ́οι τῆσ χώρασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 25:1)
  • γενέσθαι δὲ τῷ ποταμῷ τὸ ὄνομα ἀπὸ Βουφάγου φασὶν ἡρ́ωοσ, εἶναι δὲ Ιἀπετοῦ τε παῖδα αὐτὸν καὶ Θόρνακοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 25:2)

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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