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ἐπίχαλκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίχαλκος ἐπίχαλκον

Structure: ἐπιχαλκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. covered with copper or brass

Examples

  • ἐδόκουν αἰετὸν καταπτόμενον ἐσ τὴν ἀγορὰν μέγαν πάνυ ἀναρπάσαντα τοῖσ ὄνυξιν ἀσπίδα φέρειν ἐπίχαλκον ἀνεκὰσ ἐσ τὸν οὐρανόν, κἄπειτα ταύτην ἀποβαλεῖν Κλεώνυμον. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 1:14)
  • πλὰν Σῖμοσ ὁ τᾶσ Ἐπιχάλκω ἐρασθεὶσ ἐκπλεύσασ ὑγιὴσ ἐπανῆλθ’, ἐμὸσ ἁλικιώτασ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 55)
  • τὰ μέν νυν ὀρύγματα ἀνὴρ χαλκεὺσ ἀνεῦρε ἐπιχάλκω ἀσπίδι, ὧδε ἐπιφρασθείσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 200 3:2)
  • κεῖται δὲ καὶ τρίπουσ ἐπίχαλκοσ, ἐφ’ οὗ πρὶν ἢ τὴν τράπεζαν ποιηθῆναι προετίθεντο τοῖσ νικῶσιν οἱ στέφανοι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 9:3)
  • καὶ ἀσπίσ ἐστιν ἐπίχαλκοσ γραφῇ τὰ ἐντὸσ πεποικιλμένη καὶ κράνοσ τε καὶ κνημῖδεσ ὁμοῦ τῇ ἀσπίδι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. covered with copper or brass

Related

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

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