Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔνδροσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνδροσος ἔνδροσον

Structure: ἐνδρος (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bedewed

Examples

  • τὸ δ’ αἴτιον εἰκάζουσιν ὅτι τοῖσ μὲν παλίνσκιόν ἐστι τὸ χωρίον ὥστ’ ἐνδρόσουσ ὄντασ μὴ διαστέλλειν τοὺσ ὑμένασ, τοὺσ δ’ ἡλιαζομένουσ ξηροὺσ καὶ κερατώδεισ ἔχειν ὥστ’ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν εὐφυῶσ ἐκπέμπεσθαι τὸν φθόγγον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 18:3)
  • προσκατεσκεύασε δὲ ταύταισ καὶ ἄλλασ εἰσ ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ τρυφὴν ἐπιτηδείωσ ἐχούσασ τῇ τε τῶν ἀέρων εὐκρασίᾳ καὶ τοῖσ ὡραίοισ εὐφυεῖσ καὶ νάμασιν ὑδάτων ἐνδρόσουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 193:1)

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

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