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φερεσσακής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: pheressakēs

Principal Part: φερεσσακής φερεσσακές

Structure: φερεσσακη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: σάκος

Sense

  1. shield-bearing

Examples

  • πηγαῖς τε Νείλου γειτονῶν Αἰγυπτίου Ἀρκτεύς, Ἀδεύης, καὶ φερεσσάκης τρίτος Φαρνοῦχος, οἵδε ναὸς ἐκ μιᾶς πέσον. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode12)

Synonyms

  1. shield-bearing

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

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