Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δίκροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίκροτος δίκροτον

Structure: δικροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. double-beating
  2. double-oared or with two banks of oars
  3. for two cars

Examples

  • αἱ δὲ μακραὶ νῆεσ οὐχ ὡσαύτωσ ἀπαθεῖσ ἀπῆλθον ἐν τῇ ἐπιστροφῇ, οὔτε μετέωροι ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐπικαχλάζοντοσ κύματοσ ὡσαύτωσ οὖσαι, ὅσαι τε δίκροτοι αὐτῶν τὰσ κάτω κώπασ οὐκ ἐπὶ πολὺ ἔξω ἔχουσαι τοῦ ὕδατοσ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 5 2:2)
  • διεσκεδασμένων δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, αἱ μὲν τῶν νεῶν δίκροτοι ἦσαν, αἱ δὲ μονόκροτοι, αἱ δὲ παντελῶσ κεναί· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 33:4)

Synonyms

  1. double-beating

  2. double-oared or with two banks of oars

  3. for two cars

Related

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

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