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εὔορμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔορμος εὔορμον

Structure: εὐορμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with good mooring-places
  2. well-moored

Examples

  • λῦσον ἀπ’ εὐόρμων δολιχὰ πρυμνήσια νηῶν, εὔτροχα δ’ ἐκπετάσασ λαίφεα ποντοπόρει, ἔμπορε’ χειμῶνεσ γὰρ ἀπέδραμον, ἄρτι δὲ κῦμα γλαυκὸν θηλύνει πρηΰγελωσ Ζέφυροσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 41)
  • Πᾶνά με τόνδ’ ἱερῆσ ἐπὶ λισσάδοσ, αἰγιαλίτην Πᾶνα, τὸν εὐόρμων τῇδ’ ἔφορον λιμένων, οἱ γριπῆεσ ἔθεντο· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 101)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ἐν αὐτῷ φυκί’ ἐπ’ εὐόρμων εἵλκυσεν αἰγιαλῶν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 243)

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

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