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βρύχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βρύχιος βρύχιη βρύχιον

Structure: βρυχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From Bru/c, of which an acc. bru/xa occurs in late poets; cf. u(pobru/xios.

Sense

  1. from the depths of the sea, from the deep

Examples

  • εὐθὺσ δὲ κώπησ ῥοθιάδοσ ξυνεμβολῇ ἔπαισαν ἅλμην βρύχιον ἐκ κελεύματοσ, θοῶσ δὲ πάντεσ ἦσαν ἐκφανεῖσ ἰδεῖν. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. from the depths of the sea

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

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