Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπισφύριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισφύριος ἐπισφύριη ἐπισφύριον

Structure: ἐπισφυρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. on the ankle

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

  • τὸν εὐσπειρῆ δὲ δράκοντα, χρύσειον ῥαδινῶν κόσμον ἐπισφυρίων, πατρὸσ Ἀριστοτέλουσ συνομώνυμοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 206 1:3)
  • κνημῖδασ μὲν πρῶτα περὶ κνήμῃσιν ἔθηκε καλάσ, ἀργυρέοισιν ἐπισφυρίοισ ἀραρυίασ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 3 39:5)
  • κνημῖδασ μὲν πρῶτα περὶ κνήμῃσιν ἔθηκε καλὰσ ἀργυρέοισιν ἐπισφυρίοισ ἀραρυίασ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 3:3)
  • κνημῖδασ μὲν πρῶτα περὶ κνήμῃσιν ἔθηκε καλάσ, ἀργυρέοισιν ἐπισφυρίοισ ἀραρυίασ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 11:2)
  • τοὔνεκα νῦν τὰ σὰ γούναθ’ ἱκάνομαι, αἴ κ’ ἐθέλῃσθα υἱεῖ ἐμῷ ὠκυμόρῳ δόμεν ἀσπίδα καὶ τρυφάλειαν καὶ καλὰσ κνημῖδασ ἐπισφυρίοισ ἀραρυίασ καὶ θώρηχ’· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 40:16)

Synonyms

  1. on the ankle

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

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