Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπιστροφάδην

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιστροφάδην

Sense

  1. turning this way and that way, right and left, back- and for-wards

Examples

  • τύπτε δ’ ἐπιστροφάδην, τῶν δὲ στόνοσ ὤρνυτ’ ἀεικήσ . (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 515)
  • ἐπιστροφάδην δ’ ἐβάδιζεν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 21:7)
  • ὣσ ἄρα τοὶ μνηστῆρασ ἐπεσσύμενοι κατὰ δῶμα τύπτον ἐπιστροφάδην· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 49:12)
  • αὐτίκα γὰρ κατὰ δώματ’ ἐπισπόμενοι μένεϊ σφῷ κτεῖνον ἐπιστροφάδην, τῶν δὲ στόνοσ ὤρνυτ’ ἀεικὴσ κράτων τυπτομένων, δάπεδον δ’ ἅπαν αἵματι θῦεν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 24 13:16)
  • ὣσ φάτο, τῷ δ’ ἔμπνευσε μένοσ γλαυκῶπισ Ἀθήνη, κτεῖνε δ’ ἐπιστροφάδην· (Homer, Iliad, Book 10 54:1)

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

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