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ἐπαυχένιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαυχένιος ἐπαυχένιη ἐπαυχένιον

Structure: ἐπαυχενι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: au)xh/n

Sense

  1. on or for the neck

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • φέρειν δ’ ἐλαφρῶσ ἐπαυχένιον λαβόντα ζυγὸν ἀρήγει· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 2 28:3)
  • τὸ ῥόπαλον τῷ Πανὶ καὶ ἰοβόλον Πολύαινοσ τόξον καὶ κάπρου τούσδε καθᾶψε πόδασ, καὶ ταύταν γωρυτόν, ἐπαυχένιόν τε κυνάγχαν θῆκεν ὀρειάρχᾳ δῶρα συαγρεσίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 341)

Synonyms

  1. on or for the neck

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

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