Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἡμεροσκόπος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμεροσκόπος

Sense

  1. watching by day, a day-watcher

Examples

  • ἡμεροσκόποσ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene25)
  • ὅπωσ δ’ ὁ πρῶτοσ ἡμὶν ἡμεροσκόποσ δείκνυσι, πᾶσι θαῦμα δυσχερὲσ παρῆν. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 2:15)
  • κατιδὼν δὲ ὁ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἡμεροσκόποσ ἐσήμηνε τοῖσ στρατηγοῖσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. watching by day

Related

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

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