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ἐπάλληλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπάλληλος ἐπάλληλον

Structure: ἐπαλληλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)llh/lwn

Sense

  1. one after another, one another's

Examples

  • πλησίον δὲ τῆσ ἑορτῆσ οὔσησ εἰσ χαλκεῖον δοθῆναι τὸν πέλεκυν τὸν οὖν Σιμωνίδην ἔτι νέον ὄντα βαδίσαι πρὸσ τὸν χαλκέα κομιούμενον αὐτόν, ἰδόντα δὲ καὶ τὸν τεχνίτην κοιμώμενον καὶ τὸν ἀσκὸν καὶ τὸν καρκίνον εἰκῇ κείμενον καὶ ἐπαλλήλωσ ἔχοντα τὰ ἔμπροσθεν, οὕτωσ ἐλθόντα εἰπεῖν πρὸσ τοὺσ συνήθεισ τὸ προειρημένον πρόβλημα, τὸν μὲν γὰρ τοῦ ἐρίφου πατέρα τὸν ἀσκὸν εἶναι, σχέτλιον δὲ ἰχθὺν τὸν καρκίνον, νυκτὸσ δὲ παῖδα τὸν ὕπνον, βουφόνον δὲ καὶ Διονύσου θεράποντα τὸν πέλεκυν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 84 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. one after another

Related

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

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