Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φερέοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φερέοικος φερέοικον

Structure: φερεοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. carrying one's house with one, the house-carrier, snail

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὁπότ’ ἂν φερέοικοσ ἀπὸ χθονὸσ ἂμ φυτὰ βαίνῃ Πληιάδασ φεύγων, τότε δὴ σκάφοσ οὐκέτι οἰνέων· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 64:1)

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

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