Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

γνύξ

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Principal Part: γνύξ

Etym.: go/nu

Sense

  1. with bent knee, on the knee

Examples

  • ὁ δ’ ἀμφ’ ὀδύνῃ γνὺξ ἤριπεν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 2:22)
  • ὧσ δὲ καὶ ἄλλον σφῆλεν γνὺξ ἐπιόντα, μιῇ βεβολημένον ὁρμῇ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:32)
  • τοῦ ὅγ’ ἐνὶ προδόμῳ γνὺξ ἤριπε· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 8:33)
  • γνὺξ δ’ ἔριπ’ οἰμώξασ, θάνατοσ δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψε. (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 8:6)
  • αὐτὰρ ὅ γ’ ἡρ́ωσ ἔστη γνὺξ ἐριπὼν καὶ ἐρείσατο χειρὶ παχείῃ γαίησ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 35:8)

Synonyms

  1. with bent knee

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

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