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δίφροντις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίφροντις δίφροντιδος

Sense

  1. divided in mind, distraught

Examples

  • εἴθ’ εἶχε φωνὴν εὔφρον’ ἀγγέλου δίκην, ὅπωσ δίφροντισ οὖσα μὴ ’κινυσσόμην, ἀλλ’ εὖ ’σαφήνει τόνδ’ ἀποπτύσαι πλόκον, εἴπερ γ’ ἀπ’ ἐχθροῦ κρατὸσ ἦν τετμημένοσ, ἢ ξυγγενὴσ ὢν εἶχε συμπενθεῖν ἐμοὶ ἄγαλμα τύμβου τοῦδε καὶ τιμὴν πατρόσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. divided in mind

Similar forms

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

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