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ἑκηβόλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑκηβόλος

Structure: ἑκηβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e(ka/s, ba/llw

Sense

  1. far-darting, far-shooting

Examples

  • ὡσ δὲ τὰσ λόγχασ καὶ τὰ σαυνία καὶ ὅσα εἶχον ἑκηβόλα ἐξανάλωσαν, σπασάμενοι τὰ ξίφη συρράττουσιν ἀλλήλοισ ἴσῃ τόλμῃ τε καὶ ἐπιθυμίᾳ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ ἑκάτεροι χρώμενοι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 84 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. far-darting

Related

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

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