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φονολιβής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φονολιβής φονολιβές

Structure: φονολιβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: li/bos

Sense

  1. blood-dripping, blood-reeking

Examples

  • τοιαῦτα δρῶσιν οἱ νεώτεροι θεοί, κρατοῦντεσ τὸ πᾶν δίκασ πλέον φονολιβῆ θρόνον περὶ πόδα, περὶ κάρα. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. blood-dripping

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

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