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διώξιππος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διώξιππος διώξιππον

Structure: διωξιππ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. horse-driving

Examples

  • καὶ τῶν μὲν Μακεδόνων ὁμοεθνῶν ὄντων τῷ Κοράγῳ καὶ τοῦ βασιλέωσ συμφιλοτιμουμένου, τῶν δὲ Ἑλλήνων τῷ Διωξίππῳ συναγωνιώντων προῆλθεν εἰσ τὸν ἀγῶνα ὁ μὲν Μακεδὼν πολυτελέσιν ὅπλοισ κεκοσμημένοσ, ὁ δ’ Ἀθηναῖοσ γυμνὸσ ὑπαληλιμμένοσ, ἔχων ῥόπαλον σύμμετρον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 100 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. horse-driving

Related

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

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