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ἐρεμνός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρεμνός ἐρεμνή ἐρεμνόν

Structure: ἐρεμν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: syncop. from e)rebenno/s

Sense

  1. black, swart, dark, dark, obscure

Examples

  • ἅ νιν ἀμφέβαλεν αἰόλαν πορφύραν, κόμαισί τ’ ἐπέθηκεν οὔλαισ ἀμεμφέα πλόκον, τόν ποτέ ϝοι ἐν γάμῳ δῶκε δόλιοσ Ἀφροδίτα ῥόδοισ ἐρεμνόν. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 5:9)
  • ὦ δύσμοροσ, ὃσ χερὶ μὲν μεθῆκα τοὺσ ἀλάστορασ, ἐν δ’ ἑλίκεσσι βουσὶ καὶ κλυτοῖσ πεσὼν αἰπολίοισ ἐρεμνὸν αἷμ’ ἔδευσα. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 28)

Synonyms

  1. black

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

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