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βουφάγος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: bouphagos

Principal Part: βουφάγος

Structure: βουφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φαγεῖν

Sense

  1. ox-eating

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • θείη ἀνίκατον μὲν ὁ βουφάγος. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 59 1:2)
  • τοῦ δὲ κατ ἴχνος βουφάγος εἰς κοίλην ἀτραπὸν ἷκτο λέων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2172)
  • διὰ Μεγάλης μέν γε πόλεως Ἑλισσὼν ἐρχόμενος ἐκδίδωσιν ἐς τὸν Ἀλφειόν, Βρενθεάτης δὲ ἐκ τῆς Μεγαλοπολιτῶν γῆς, παρὰ δὲ Γόρτυναν ἔνθα ἱερὸν Ἀσκληπιοῦ, παρὰ δὴ ταῦτα Γορτύνιος ῥέων, ἐκ <δὲ> Μελαινεῶν Βουφάγος τῆς Μεγαλοπολίτιδος μεταξὺ καὶ Ἡραιίτιδος χώρας, ἐκ δὲ τῆς Κλειτορίων Λάδων, ἐκ δὲ Ἐρυμάνθου τοῦ ὄρους ὁμώνυμος τῷ ὄρει. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 2:2)
  • 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)
  • Μελαινεῶν δὲ τεσσαράκοντά ἐστιν ἀνωτέρω σταδίοις Βουφάγιον, καὶ ὁ ποταμὸς ἐνταῦθα ἔχει πηγὰς ὁ Βουφάγος κατιὼν ἐς τὸν Ἀλφειόν: (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. ox-eating

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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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