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εὔιππος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔιππος εὔιππον

Structure: εὐιππ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. well-horsed, delighting in horses
  2. famed for horses

Examples

  • ὦ Θήβαισιν εὐίπποισ ἄναξ, μὴ σπεῖρε τέκνων ἄλοκα δαιμόνων βίᾳ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:8)
  • Φιλάγριοσ ὤλεσε μορφὴν τῆσ λογικῆσ ψυχῆσ οὔτι χερειοτέρην, Καισάριον δὲ νέον Φθόνοσ ἡρ́πασεν οὔποτε τοῖα πέμψεισ εὐίπποισ ἄνθεα Καππαδόκαισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 1002)

Synonyms

  1. famed for horses

Related

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

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