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εὔπωλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔπωλος εὔπωλον

Structure: εὐπωλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. abounding in foals or horses, breeding noble horses

Examples

  • τοῦτο ἐξ ἀθλητῶν ἀδίκημα ἐσ τὸν ἀγῶνα πρῶτον γενέσθαι λέγουσι, καὶ πρῶτοι χρήμασιν ἐζημιώθησαν ὑπὸ Ἠλείων Εὔπωλοσ καὶ οἱ δεξάμενοι δῶρα παρὰ Εὐπώλου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 5:3)
  • Εὐπώλου δὲ ὕστερόν φασιν Ἀθηναῖον Κάλλιππον ἀθλήσαντα πένταθλον ἐξωνήσασθαι τοὺσ ἀνταγωνιουμένουσ χρήμασι, δευτέραν δὲ ἐπὶ ταῖσ δέκα τε καὶ ἑκατὸν Ὀλυμπιάδα εἶναι ταύτην. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 9:1)
  • οὕτω δὴ ἀποδόντων ἐποιήθη τῷ Διὶ ἀγάλματα, ἓξ μὲν καὶ ταῦτα, γέγραπται δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐλεγεῖα οὐδέν τι δεξιώτερα ἐσ ποίησιν ἢ τὰ ἔχοντα τὴν ζημίαν τὴν Εὐπώλου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 10:1)

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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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