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ἐπιμήκης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιμήκης ἐπιμήκες

Structure: ἐπιμηκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mh=kos

Sense

  1. longish, oblong

Examples

  • Συνόδιον δ’ αἱροῦσι πόλιν ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆσ ὕλησ, ἐν ᾗ τὸν Γαβινίου στρατὸν ἐνήδρευσαν οἱ Δαλμάται περὶ φάραγγι βαθείᾳ καὶ ἐπιμήκει καὶ μέσῃ δύο ὀρῶν, ἔνθα καὶ τὸν Καίσαρα ἐνήδρευον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 3:3)
  • τοῖσι δὲ αὐτοῖσ καὶ ἐμφυσῆν καλάμῳ, ἢ πτίλῳ, ἢ καυλῷ παχέϊ καὶ ἐπιμήκεϊ, ὡσ τῶν ἑλκέων θιγγάνειν τὰ φάρμακα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 337)

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

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