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ἐπιδόρπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδόρπιος ἐπιδόρπιον

Structure: ἐπιδορπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: do/rpon

Sense

  1. for use after dinner

Examples

  • κᾤχεθ’ Ὕλασ ὁ ξανθὸσ ὕδωρ ἐπιδόρπιον οἰσῶν αὐτῷ θ’ Ἡρακλῆι καὶ ἀστεμφεῖ Τελαμῶνι, οἳ μίαν ἄμφω ἑταῖροι ἀεὶ δαίνυντο τράπεζαν, χάλκεον ἄγγοσ ἔχων. (Theocritus, Idylls, 10)

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

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