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γλῆνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γλῆνος

Structure: γλην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from glh/nh

Sense

  1. things to stare at, shows, wonders

Examples

  • "τὰ δ’ ἑκατέρωθεν κοιλώματα λέγουσι κύμβουσ ἢ γλήνασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 59 1:2)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἰθὺσ κενεὰσ ὁ γεραιὸσ ἀνέσχεν γλήνασ ἀμπετάσασ, καὶ ἀμείψατο τοῖσδ’ ἐπέεσσιν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 4:29)

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

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