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ἐννεάκρουνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐννεάκρουνος ἐννεάκρουνον

Structure: ἐννεακρουν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with nine springs

Examples

  • οὐ κατὰ ταὐτά, ὦ Τίμων, τοῖσ πολλοῖσ τούτοισ ἀφῖγμαι, οἵπερ ^ τὸν πλοῦτόν σου ^ τεθηπότεσ ἀργυρίου καὶ χρυσίου καὶ δείπνων πολυτελῶν ἐλπίδι συνδεδραμήκασι, πολλὴν τὴν κολακείαν ἐπιδειξόμενοι πρὸσ ἄνδρα οἱο͂ν σὲ ἁπλοϊκὸν καὶ τῶν ὄντων κοινωνικὸν οἶσθα γὰρ ὡσ μᾶζα μὲν ἐμοὶ δεῖπνον ἱκανόν, ὄψον δὲ ἥδιστον θύμον ἢ κάρδαμον ἢ εἴ ποτε τρυφῴην, ὀλίγον τῶν ἁλῶν ποτὸν δὲ ἡ ἐννεάκρουνοσ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 55:1)
  • φοιτᾶν γὰρ αἰεὶ τὰσ σφετέρασ θυγατέρασ τε καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ ἐπ’ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐννεάκρουνον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 137 4:3)
  • πλησίον δέ ἐστι κρήνη, καλοῦσι δὲ αὐτὴν Ἐννεάκρουνον, οὕτω κοσμηθεῖσαν ὑπὸ Πεισιστράτου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. with nine springs

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

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