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ἐρειψίτοιχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρειψίτοιχος ἐρειψίτοιχον

Structure: ἐρειψιτοιχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. overthrowing walls

Examples

  • ἰὼ ἰὼ δωμάτων ἐρειψίτοιχοι καὶ πικρὰσ μοναρχίασ ἰδόντεσ, ἤδη διήλ‐ λαχθε σὺν σιδάρῳ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. overthrowing walls

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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