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ἰχθυβόλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰχθυβόλος ἰχθυβόλον

Structure: ἰχθυβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ba/llw

Sense

  1. striking fish
  2. a fisher, angler
  3. of speared fish

Examples

  • σύ τ’, ὦ Διογενὲσ φιλόμαχον κράτοσ, ῥυσίπολισ γενοῦ, Παλλάσ, ὅ θ’ ἵππιοσ ποντομέδων ἄναξ ἰχθυβόλῳ Ποσειδάων μαχανᾷ, ἐπίλυσιν φόβων, ἐπίλυσιν δίδου. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. striking fish

  2. of speared fish

Related

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

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