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βράγχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βράγχος βράγχη βράγχον

Structure: βραγχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from bragxo/s

Sense

  1. hoarseness, sore throat causing hoarseness

Examples

  • ὁ Βράγχοσ ἐπὶ πέτρασ καθεζόμενοσ ἀνέχει λαγὼν καὶ προσπαίζει τὸν κύνα, ὁ δὲ πηδησομένῳ ἐοίκεν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸ ὕψοσ, καὶ Ἀπόλλων παρεστὼσ μειδιᾷ τερπόμενοσ ἀμφοῖν καὶ τῷ παιδὶ παίζοντι καὶ πειρωμένῳ τῷ κυνί. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 24:2)
  • Πῶσ οὖν τὸν Ἀπόλλω ὁ Βράγχοσ καὶ ὁ Υἅκινθοσ φιλοῦσιν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:3)
  • δεῖται δὲ ἀφέψεσθαι καὶ ἀποσήπεσθαι‧ εἰ δὲ μή, ὀδμὴν ἴσχει πονηρὴν καὶ βράγχοσ καὶ βῆχεσ καὶ βαρυφωνίη τοῖσ πίνουσι προσίσταται. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , viii.19)
  • βράγχοσ, ἀφωνίη, καὶ τάδε ἐπὶ τὸ κάκιον ἐπείγει, εὖτε ἀθρόον καταπεσόντεσ εἰσ τὴν γῆν ἐξέλιπον. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 121)

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

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