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ἔγχωρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγχωρος ἔγχωρον

Structure: ἐγχωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xw/ra

Sense

Examples

  • σύν τ’ εὐκλείᾳ καὶ ἀμηνίτῳ βάξει λαῶν ἐγχώρων τάσσεσθε, φίλαι δμωίδεσ, οὕτωσ ὡσ ἐφ’ ἑκάστῃ διεκλήρωσεν Δαναὸσ θεραποντίδα φερνήν. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, anapests6)
  • ἵν’ αὐτὸσ ἦν πρόσουροσ, οὐκ ἔχων βάσιν, οὐδέ τιν’ ἐγχώρων κακογείτονα, παρ’ ᾧ στόνον ἀντίτυπον βαρυβρῶτ’ ἀποκλαύσειεν αἱματηρόν· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 11)

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

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