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ἠμαθόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠμαθόεις ἠμαθόεσσα ἠμαθόεν

Structure: ἠμαθοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic for a)maqo/eis

Sense

  1. sandy

Examples

  • οὐ Πύλον ἠμαθόεσσαν ἔχεισ, Νηλήιον οὖδασ, ‐ Ἀντίλοχον δεδάηκα, τεὴν δ’ οὐκ εἶδον ὀπωπὴν οὐ Φθίην χαρίεσσαν, ἀριστήων τροφὸν ἀνδρῶν· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1130)
  • Δαρδανίην δὲ λιπόντεσ ἐπιποοσέβαλλον Ἀβύδῳ, Περκώτην δ’ ἐπὶ τῇ καὶ Ἀβαρνίδοσ ἠμαθόεσσαν ἠιόνα ζαθέην τε παρήμειβον Πιτύειαν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 16:24)

Synonyms

  1. sandy

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

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