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δασύπους

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δασύπους

Structure: δασυποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. rough-foot, a hare

Examples

  • περδίκια λαβὲ τέτταρ’ ἢ καὶ πέντε, δασύποδασ δὲ τρεῖσ, στρουθάριὰ θ’ οἱο͂ν ἐντραγεῖν, ἀκανθίδασ, καὶ βιττάκουσ, σπινίδια, κερχνῇδασ τά τ’ ἄλλ’ ἅττ’ ἂν ἐπιτύχῃσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 71 1:5)
  • ἵνα τοὺσ δασύποδασ οὓσ ἂν λάβωμεν ἁλσὶ διαπάττειν ἔχῃσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 61 2:6)
  • οἱ δὲ τοὺσ δασύποδασ διώκοντεσ, ἐὰν μὲν αὐτοὶ κτείνωσιν, ἥδονται διασπῶντεσ καὶ τὸ αἷμα λάπτουσι προθύμωσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 15 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. rough-foot

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

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