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ἐνδόμυχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνδόμυχος ἐνδόμυχον

Structure: ἐνδομυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in the inmost part of a dwelling, lurking within

Examples

  • χαῖρ’, ὦ μέλαθρον ξύμφρουρον ἐμοί, νύμφαι τ’ ἔνυδροι λειμωνιάδεσ, καὶ κτύποσ ἄρσην πόντου προβολῆσ, οὗ πολλάκι δὴ τοὐμὸν ἐτέγχθη κρᾶτ’ ἐνδόμυχον πληγαῖσι νότου, πολλὰ δὲ φωνῆσ τῆσ ἡμετέρασ Ἑρμαῖον ὄροσ παρέπεμψεν ἐμοὶ στόνον ἀντίτυπον χειμαζομένῳ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode, anapests6)

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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