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φάλαρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φάλαρος φάλαρᾱ φάλαρον

Structure: φαλαρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: falo/s

Sense

  1. having a patch of white, with a white spot

Examples

  • τουτεῖ βοσκησεῖσθε ποτ’ ἀντολάσ, ὡσ ὁ Φάλαροσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 90)
  • ᾧ ποτὶ ταῖσ ἐρίφοισ ὁ κύων ὁ φάλαροσ ὑλακτεῖ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 25)
  • ἐκ δὲ Λαφυστίου κατιόντι ἐσ τῆσ Ἰτωνίασ Ἀθηνᾶσ τὸ ἱερὸν ποταμόσ ἐστι Φάλαροσ ἐσ τὴν Κηφισίδα ἐκδιδοὺσ λίμνην. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 10:3)

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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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