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ἐχέστονος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: echestonos

Principal Part: ἐχέστονος ἐχέστονον

Structure: ἐχεστον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bringing sorrows

Examples

  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τὸν χῶρον, ὅθι λῖς ἠε῀ν, ἵκανον, δὴ τότε τόξον ἑλὼν στρεπτὴν ἐπέλασσα κορώνῃ νευρειήν, περὶ δ ἰὸν ἐχέστονον εἶθαρ ἔβησα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 89)

Synonyms

  1. bringing sorrows

Similar forms

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

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