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ἐμβύθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβύθιος ἐμβύθιᾱ ἐμβύθιον

Structure: ἐμβυθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, buqo/s

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Examples

  • ἄρσαντεσ δὲ τῶν ἵππων ἑκάτερον καὶ ἀπονίψαντεσ ἀπὸ τῆσ λιβάδοσ, ἣ παρὰ τὸ ἱερὸν τῆσ Ἑστίασ ἀναδίδωσι λίμνην ποιοῦσα ἐμβύθιον ὀλίγην, πολλῶν αὐτοὺσ περιστάντων καὶ εἴ τι φέρουσιν ἐπὶ κοινὸν ἀπὸ στρατοπέδου μαθεῖν ἀξιούντων, τήν τε μάχην αὐτοῖσ φράζουσιν, ὡσ ἐγένετο καὶ ὅτι νικῶσιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 13 3:1)

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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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