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ἱππομανής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππομανής ἱππομανές

Structure: ἱππομανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mai/nomai

Sense

  1. in which horses take mad delight, swarming with horses
  2. which makes horses mad

Examples

  • ἱππομανὲσ φυτόν ἐστι παρ’ Ἀρκάσι· (Theocritus, Idylls, 40)
  • ἱππομανέσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 92)
  • οὗτόσ ἐστιν ὁ ἵπποσ ὅτῳ καὶ τὸ ἱππομανὲσ λόγῳ τῷ Ἠλείων ἔγκειται· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 5:1)

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

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