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ἑπτάπυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑπτάπυλος ἑπτάπυλον

Structure: ἑπταπυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

  1. with seven gates, Boeotian

Examples

  • ἔγνον ποτὲ καὶ Ιὄλαον οὐκ ἀτιμάσαντά νιν ἑπτάπυλοι Θῆβαι· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 9 23:4)
  • ἑπτάπυλοι δὲ Θῆβαι καὶ γενέτωρ ἐστέφεθ’ Ἑρμοκράτησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 588 1:3)

Related

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

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