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δεκάπαλαι

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Principal Part: δεκάπαλαι

Sense

  1. very long ago

Examples

  • κατάκειμαι, ὡσ ὁρᾶτε, δεκάπαλαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 42 3:3)
  • "ὁ βοῦσ ὁ χαλκοῦσ ἦν ἂν ἑφθὸσ δεκάπαλαι, ὁ δ’ ἴσωσ γαλαθηνὸν τέθυκε τὸν χοῖρον λαβών, καὶ Ἀνακρέων δέ φησιν οἱᾶ́ τε νεβρὸν νεοθηλέα γαλαθηνόν, ὅσ τ’ ἐν ὕλῃ κεροέσσησ ἀπολειφθεὶσ ἀπὸ μητρὸσ ἐπτοήθη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 54 1:11)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ δεκάπαλαί γε καὶ δωδεκάπαλαι καὶ χιλιόπαλαι καὶ προπαλαιπαλαίπαλαι. (Aristotle, Episode4)

Synonyms

  1. very long ago

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

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