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δίπυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίπυλος δίπυλον

Structure: διπυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

  1. double-gated, with two entrances

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τῇ πόλει δὲ ταῦτα ἐξαίρετα παῤ ἐμοῦ ὑπῆρξεν ἄν, αἱ μὲν διανομαὶ κατὰ μῆνα ἕκαστον δραχμαὶ τῷ μὲν ἀστῷ ἑκατόν, τῷ δὲ μετοίκῳ ἥμισυ τούτων, θαυμάσια δὲ ἐσ κάλλοσ θέατρα καὶ βαλανεῖα, καὶ τὴν θάλατταν ἄχρι πρὸσ τὸ Δίπυλον ἥκειν κἀνταῦθά που λιμένα εἶναι ἐπαχθέντοσ ὀρύγματι μεγάλῳ τοῦ ὕδατοσ, ὡσ τὸ πλοῖόν μου πλησίον ὁρμεῖν καταφανὲσ ὂν ἐκ τοῦ Κεραμεικοῦ. (Lucian, 42:2)
  • ἥκομεν γὰρ δὴ πρὸσ τὸ Δίπυλον, καὶ ὁ βέλτιστοσ οὑτοσὶ Σάμιπποσ ἀμφὶ Βαβυλῶνα μονομαχῶν, καὶ σύ, ὦ Τιμόλαε, ἀριστῶν μὲν ἐν Συρίᾳ, δειπνῶν δὲ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ καὶ τοῖσ ἐμοὶ ἐπιβάλλουσι σταδίοισ κατεχρήσασθε καλῶσ ποιοῦντεσ· (Lucian, 78:3)
  • ἐκλείσθη δ’ οὖν τότε καὶ τὸ τοῦ Ιἀνοῦ δίπυλον, ὃ πολέμου πύλην καλοῦσιν ἀνέῳγε μὲν γὰρ ὅταν ᾖ πόλεμοσ, κλείεται δ’ εἰρήνησ γενομένησ. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 9 5:3)
  • ἐκλείσθη δ’ οὖν τότε καὶ τὸ τοῦ Ιἀνοῦ δίπυλον, ὃ πολέμου πύλην καλοῦσιν· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 9 16:1)
  • ταφῆναι δ’ Ἀνθεμόκριτον παρὰ τὰσ Θριασίασ πύλασ, αἳ νῦν Δίπυλον ὀνομάζονται. (Plutarch, , chapter 30 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. double-gated

Related

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

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