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βουκέφαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βουκέφαλος

Structure: βουκεφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kefalh/

Sense

  1. bull-headed

Examples

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοι παρῄνουν ἀποσφάττειν τοὺσ εἰλημμένουσ, ἐγὼ δὲ οὐκ ἐδοκίμαζον, ἀλλὰ δήσασ ἐφύλαττον αὐτούσ, ἄχρι δὴ ἀφίκοντο παρὰ τῶν Βουκεφάλων πρέσβεισ ἀπαιτοῦντεσ ἐπὶ λύτροισ τοὺσ συνειλημμένουσ· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 44:10)
  • καὶ τὸν Ἀκεσίνην αὖ διαβὰσ ἐπὶ τὸν Ὑδάσπην ἧκεν, ἵνα καὶ τῶν πόλεων τῆσ τε Νικαίασ καὶ τῶν Βουκεφάλων ὅσα πρὸσ τῶν ὄμβρων πεπονηκότα ἦν ξὺν τῇ στρατιᾷ ἐπεσκεύασε καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ κατὰ τὴν χώραν ἐκόσμει. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 29 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. bull-headed

    • φι (of the head.)

Related

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

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