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ἔκτυπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκτυπος ἔκτυπον

Structure: ἐκτυπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worked in high relief, a figure worked in relief, a cameo

Examples

  • χθόνα δ’ ἔκτυπον ὠκέεσ ἵπποι νύσσοντεσ χηλῇσι, κόνισ δέ σφ’ ἀμφιδεδήει κοπτομένη πλεκτοῖσιν ὑφ’ ἁρ́μασι καὶ ποσὶν ἵππων. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 4:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ β Φοίνικι ὁ αὐτὸσ Ιὤν φησίν ἔκτυπον ἄγων βαρὺν αὐλὸν τρέχοντι ῥυθμῷ,3 οὕτω λέγων τῷ Φρυγίῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 84 4:3)
  • τὴν μὴ τρανῆ μηδὲ ἔκτυπον. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 46:4)

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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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