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δασύπους

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δασύπους

Structure: δασυποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. rough-foot, a hare

Examples

  • λέγοιεν γὰρ ἂν ἴσωσ ἅπερ Ἀντισθένησ ἔφη τοὺσ λέοντασ δημηγορούντων τῶν δασυπόδων καὶ τὸ ἴσον ἀξιούντων πάντασ ἔχειν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 214:5)
  • "ἐάσωμεν, εἰ μόνον ἀλεκτορίδων ἀπείχοντο πάντεσ ἢ δασυπόδων, οὐκ ἂν ἦν χρόνου βραχέοσ ὑπὸ πλήθουσ οὔτε πόλιν οἰκεῖν οὔτε καρπῶν ὄνασθαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 18:9)

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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