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ἐλεγξίγαμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεγξίγαμος ἐλεγξίγαμον

Structure: ἐλεγξιγαμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. proving a wife's fidelity

Examples

  • αἶψα γὰρ ἡνίκα μητρὸσ ὀλισθήσασ διὰ κόλπων νηπίαχοσ πρῶτον προχέει δάκρυ, τὸν μὲν ἀείρασ αὐτὸσ ἐπ’ ἀσπίδι θῆκεν ἑὸν πάιν, οὐδ’ ἀλεγίζει, οὔπω γὰρ γενέταο φέρει νοῦν, πρὶν γ’ ἐπαθρήσῃ κεκριμένον λουτροῖσιν ἐλεγξιγάμου ποταμοῖο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1252)

Similar forms

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

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