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ἐπίκωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκωπος ἐπίκωπον

Structure: ἐπικωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kw/ph

Sense

  1. up to the hilt, through and through

Examples

  • αἱ μὲν οὖν ἐπίκωποι νῆεσ ὁπηλίκαι ποτ’ ἂν οὖσαι τύχωσι καὶ τῶν ὁλκάδων αἱ μέχρι τρισχιλιοφόρων εἰσάγουσί τε διὰ τοῦ στόματοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ μέχρι τῆσ Ῥώμησ εἰρεσίᾳ καὶ ῥύμασι παρελκόμεναι κομίζονται, αἱ δὲ μείζουσ πρὸ τοῦ στόματοσ ἐπ’ ἀγκυρῶν σαλεύουσαι ταῖσ ποταμηγοῖσ ἀπογεμίζονταί τε καὶ ἀντιφορτίζονται σκάφαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 44 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. up to the hilt

Related

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

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