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ἔνδροσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνδροσος ἔνδροσον

Structure: ἐνδρος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bedewed

Examples

  • Ὁ δὲ χῶροσ, ἵναπερ τοῦ Ἄμμωνοσ τὸ ἱερόν ἐστι, τὰ μὲν κύκλῳ πάντα ἔρημα καὶ ψάμμον τὸ πᾶν ἔχει καὶ ἄνυδρον, αὐτὸσ δὲ ἐν μέσῳ ὀλίγοσ ὢν ὁ̔́σον γὰρ πλεῖστον αὐτοῦ ἐσ πλάτοσ διέχει ἐσ τεσσαράκοντα μάλιστα σταδίουσ ἔρχεταἰ κατάπλεώσ ἐστιν ἡμέρων δένδρων, ἐλαῶν καὶ φοινίκων, καὶ ἔνδροσοσ μόνοσ τῶν πέριξ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 4 1:1)

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

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