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διτάλαντος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διτάλαντος διτάλαντον

Structure: διταλαντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ta/lanton

Sense

  1. worth or weighing two talents, costing two talents

Examples

  • τὸν δ’ ἕτερον Ἄλκιμοσ ὁ Ἠπειρώτησ, ἀνὴρ πολεμικώτατοσ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ ῥωμαλεώτατοσ, ὃσ μόνοσ ἐχρῆτο διταλάντῳ πανοπλίᾳ, τῶν ἄλλων χρωμένων ταλαντιαίᾳ· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 21 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. worth or weighing two talents

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

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