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ἐρείψιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρείψιμος ἐρείψιμον

Structure: ἐρειψιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)rei/pw

Sense

  1. thrown down, in ruins

Examples

  • ἔδοξ’ ἐν ὕπνῳ τῆσδ’ ἀπαλλαχθεῖσα γῆσ οἰκεῖν ἐν Ἄργει, παρθένοισι δ’ ἐν μέσαισ εὕδειν, χθονὸσ δὲ νῶτα σεισθῆναι σάλῳ, φεύγειν δὲ κἄξω στᾶσα θριγκὸν εἰσιδεῖν δόμων πίτνοντα, πᾶν δ’ ἐρείψιμον στέγοσ βεβλημένον πρὸσ οὖδασ ἐξ ἄκρων σταθμῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. thrown down

Similar forms

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

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