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ἑξάπους

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑξάπους

Structure: ἑξαποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = e(ca/pedos, Plut.

Sense

Examples

  • Λούεσθαι μὲν ὁπόταν τὸ στοιχεῖον ἑξάπουν ᾖ, τὰ δὲ πρὸ τοῦ λουτροῦ κάρυα καὶ πεττοὶ ἔστωσαν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:1)
  • τοῦτο τὸ μέτρον ἡρῷόν ἐστιν ἑξάπουν τέλειον, κατὰ δάκτυλον πόδα βαινόμενον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 44)

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

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