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ἔναυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔναυλος ἔναυλον

Structure: ἐναυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. on or to the flute, ringing in one's ears, fresh in memory
  2. dwelling in dens, in one's den

Examples

  • ἔτι γὰρ αὐτοῖσ ἔναυλα καὶ πρὸ ὀμμάτων ἦν, ἃ τῷ παρελθόντι ἐνιαυτῷ κατὰ τὸ ἔγκοτον τῆσ πρὸσ τὸν ὕπατον τιμῆσ αἰσχρὰ καὶ ἀνάξια τῆσ πόλεωσ εἰργάσαντο, παραχωρήσαντεσ τῆσ νίκησ τοῖσ ἡττηθεῖσι καὶ φυγῆσ ὄνειδοσ οὐκ ἀληθὲσ ὑπομείναντεσ, ἵνα μὴ καταγάγῃ τὸν ἐπινίκιον θρίαμβον ὁ ἀνήρ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 7 5:2)
  • τὰ μὲν περὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ καὶ ὡσ κατέστησεν ἡμᾶσ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ εἰσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ψῆφον ὁποίαν τινὰ ἤνεγκε περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ ὅσα εἰσ τοῦτο φέροντα ἐχρημάτιζε, καὶ τοὔνομα ὡσ πρὸσ τῷ ἀρχαίῳ τὸν Θεόδωρον προσέθετο, καὶ περὶ τῆσ αὑτοῦ φύσεωσ ὁποῖ’ ἄττα ἔδειξε, καὶ ὅσα τοῦ τύπου τούτου, πάντα μὲν οὐδ’ ἐγγὺσ εἴρηται, ὅσα δὲ ἦν ἔναυλα καὶ ἀφ’ ὧν ἔξεστι περὶ τῶν ἄλλων τεκμαίρεσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 17:13)

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

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