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φιλοστέφανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοστέφανος φιλοστέφανον

Structure: φιλοστεφαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving crowns, garlanded

Examples

  • δέδοικα δὲ μὴ πρὶν ὑπερβάλῃ με γῆρασ, πρὶν σὰν χαρίεσσαν προσιδεῖν ὡρ́αν καὶ καλλιχόρουσ ἀοιδὰσ φιλοστεφάνουσ τε κώμουσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 26 5:1)

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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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