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δορός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δορός

Etym.: de/rw

Sense

  1. a leathern bag or wallet

Examples

  • οὐκ οἶσθα δορὸσ πέλασ Ἀργείου νυχίαν ἡμᾶσ κοίταν πανόπλουσ κατέχοντασ; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, anapests20)
  • οὐδ’ ὧδέ γ’ αἰσχρῶσ ἔπεσον ἐν τροπῇ δορόσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode18)
  • ὀρθὸσ δ’ ἀνᾴσσω χειρὶ σὺν κενῇ δορόσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:8)
  • ὅσ μ’ ἐξοτρύνει παῖδ’ ἐμὸν πεῖσαι λιταῖσ νεκρῶν κομιστὴν ἢ λόγοισιν ἢ δορὸσ ῥώμῃ γενέσθαι καὶ τάφου μεταίτιον, μόνον τόδ’ ἔργον προστιθεὶσ ἐμῷ τέκνῳ πόλει τ’ Ἀθηνῶν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:6)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, βίᾳ δορὸσ ἤδη τόδ’ ἔσται κοὐχὶ σὺν φθόνῳ θεῶν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, iambic 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. a leathern bag or wallet

Similar forms

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

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