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ἐγχέλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχέλειος ἐγχέλειᾱ ἐγχέλειον

Structure: ἐγχελει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of an eel, eel's flesh

Examples

  • Θεόφιλοσ δ’ ἐν Ιἀτρῷ ἅμα σκώπτων αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ἐν λόγοισ ψυχρὸν πᾶσ δὲ φιλοτίμωσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν τῶν νεανίσκων ἔχει ` ἐγχέλειον, παρατέθεικε τῷ πατρί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 24 5:3)
  • τὸ δὲ ἐγχέλειον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 81 4:11)
  • καὶ δῆθ’ ὑπάρχει τέμαχοσ ἐγχέλειον ὑμῖν, τευθίσ, ἄρνειον κρέασ, φύσκησ τόμοσ, ποὺσ ἑφθόσ, ἧπαρ, πλευρόν, ὀρνίθεια πλήθει πολλά, τυρὸσ ἐν μέλιτι, μερὶσ κρεῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 49 3:4)
  • οὐ χόριον οὐδὲ πυὸσ οὐδ’ ἧπαρ κάπρου οὐδὲ σχαδόνεσ οὐδ’ ἠτριαῖον δέλφακοσ οὐδ’ ἐγχέλειον οὐδὲ κάραβον μέγαν γυναιξὶ κοπιώσαισ ἐπεχορηγήσατε; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 64 2:8)
  • τὸ δὲ ἐγχέλειον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 45 2:12)

Synonyms

  1. of an eel

Related

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

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