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καλλίσφυρος

Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλίσφυρος

Etym.: sfuro/n

Sense

  1. beautiful-ankled

Examples

  • τοίην συνθεσίην καλλίσφυροσ ἔννεπε νύμφη. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1156)
  • τὸν δὲ ἴδεν Κάδμου θυγάτηρ, καλλίσφυροσ Ἰνώ, Λευκοθέη, ἣ πρὶν μὲν ἐήν βροτὸσ αὐδήεσσα, νῦν δ’ ἁλὸσ ἐν πελάγεσσι θεῶν ἒξ ἔμμορε τιμῆσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 33:1)

Synonyms

  1. beautiful-ankled

Related

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

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