Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔνδροσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνδροσος ἔνδροσον

Structure: ἐνδρος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bedewed

Examples

  • εὖτ’ ἂν δὲ νυκτίπλαγκτον ἔνδροσόν τ’ ἔχω εὐνὴν ὀνείροισ οὐκ ἐπισκοπουμένην ἐμήν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:3)
  • διὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἔνδροσόν ἐστι καὶ ποάζον ἀεὶ τὸ πεδίον τοῦτο τρέφειν ἀγέλασ βοῶν τε ὁμοίωσ καὶ ἵππων δυνάμενον, σπόρον δὲ πλεῖστον δέχεται τὸν ἐκ τῆσ ἐλύμου καὶ κέγχρου, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀνέκλειπτον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 30:9)

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

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