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

  • καὶ ναυτικοὶ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ Ἀρδιαίοισ ἐγένοντο Λιβυρνοί, γένοσ ἕτερον Ἰλλυριῶν, οἳ τὸν Ιὄνιον καὶ τὰσ νήσουσ ἐλῄστευον ναυσὶν ὠκείαισ τε καὶ κούφαισ, ὅθεν ἔτι νῦν Ῥωμαῖοι τὰ κοῦφα καὶ ὀξέα δίκροτα Λιβυρνίδασ προσαγορεύουσιν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 2:11)
  • Μιθριδάτῃ δὲ τὸ μὲν οἰκεῖον ἦν μυριάδεσ πεζῶν πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ ἱππεῖσ τετρακισμύριοι, καὶ νῆεσ κατάφρακτοι τριακόσιαι, δίκροτα δὲ ἑκατόν, καὶ ἡ ἄλλη παρασκευὴ τούτων κατὰ λόγον, στρατηγοὶ δὲ Νεοπτόλεμόσ τε καὶ Ἀρχέλαοσ, ἀλλήλων ἀδελφώ, καὶ τοῖσ πλείστοισ αὐτὸσ παρεγίγνετο. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 3:6)
  • καὶ αὐτὴν ὁ πατὴρ ἀγάμενοσ τῆσ εὐψυχίασ, δίκροτα πολλὰ ἐπιπέμψασ ἐξήρπασεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 3:6)
  • ὁ δ’ οὐκ ἔλαττον ὀγδοήκοντα ἐναυπηγήσατο δίκροτα καὶ τριήρεισ καὶ φασήλουσ κατὰ Κλεοπατρίδα τὴν πρὸσ τῇ παλαιᾷ διώρυγι τῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ Νείλου. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 45:6)
  • τούτων κατάφρακτα μὲν εἴκοσι διαφέροντα ταῖσ κατασκευαῖσ, ἐν οἷσ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον ἦν τετρήρουσ, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ τριήρεισ καὶ δίκροτα καὶ κέλητεσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 62 3:1)

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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