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εὐπόλεμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπόλεμος εὐπόλεμον

Structure: εὐπολεμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. good at war, successful in war

Examples

  • συγγέγραπται δὲ ἄττα ὑπὲρ τούτων καὶ Εὐπολέμῳ καὶ Ἰφικράτει, οὐ τῷ Ἀθηναίων στρατηγῷ, ἀλλ̓ ἄλλῳ τούτῳ. (Arrian, chapter 1 3:1)
  • λέγεται δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ Εὐπολέμῳ καὶ τάδε, ὡσ ἐφεστήκοιεν τρεῖσ ἐπὶ τῷ δρόμῳ τῷ πέρατι Ἑλλανοδίκαι, νικᾶν δὲ τῷ μὲν Εὐπολέμῳ δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν δοῖεν, ὁ τρίτοσ δὲ Ἀμβρακιώτῃ Λέοντι, καὶ ὡσ χρημάτων καταδικάσαιτο ὁ Λέων ἐπὶ τῆσ Ὀλυμπικῆσ βουλῆσ ἑκατέρου τῶν Ἑλλανοδικῶν οἳ νικᾶν τὸν Εὐπόλεμον ἔγνωσαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 12:3)

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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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