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βύσσινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βύσσινος βύσσινη βύσσινον

Structure: βυσσιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. made of bu/ssos, sindw/n b. a fine linen bandage, used for mummy-cloths,

Examples

  • τάφον γὰρ αὐτῷ καὶ κατασκαφὰσ ἐγώ, γυνή περ οὖσα, τῷδε μηχανήσομαι, κόλπῳ φέρουσα βυσσίνου πεπλώματοσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:7)

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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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