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δάκος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δάκος

Etym.: da/knw

Sense

  1. an animal of which the bite is dangerous, a noxious beast

Examples

  • ἐμὲ δὲ χρεὼν φεύγειν δάκοσ ἀδινὸν κακαγοριᾶν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 2 16:2)
  • τίνοσ βορᾶσ χρῄζοντα, νεογενὲσ δάκοσ; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:17)
  • τούτων θεοῖσι χρὴ πολύμνηστον χάριν τίνειν, ἐπείπερ καὶ πάγασ ὑπερκότουσ ἐφραξάμεσθα καὶ γυναικὸσ οὕνεκα πόλιν διημάθυνεν Ἀργεῖον δάκοσ, ἵππου νεοσσόσ, ἀσπιδηφόροσ λεώσ, πήδημ’ ὀρούσασ ἀμφὶ Πλειάδων δύσιν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 2:7)
  • τί νιν καλοῦσα δυσφιλὲσ δάκοσ τύχοιμ’ ἄν; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:22)

Synonyms

  1. an animal of which the bite is dangerous

Related

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

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