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δοριάλωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δοριάλωτος δοριάλωτον

Structure: δοριαλωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(lw=nai

Sense

  1. captive of the spear, taken in war

Examples

  • ̔καὶ τοῦτο, εἴπερ τι ἄλλο, κατέσχεν ἐν κόσμῳ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ ἐξ Ἀλεξάνδρου δοριάλωτα ἢ ἑκόντα προσχωρήσαντα, τοσαῦτα μὲν πλήθει ὄντα, τόσον δὲ ἀλλήλων ἀφεστηκότα, ὅτι οὐκ ἐξῆν ὑπὸ τῇ Ἀλεξάνδρου βασιλείᾳ ἀδικεῖσθαι τοὺσ ἀρχομένουσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀρχόντων· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 27 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. captive of the spear

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

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