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κουροβόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κουροβόρος κουροβόρον

Structure: κουροβορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bibrw/skw

Sense

  1. devouring children

Examples

  • βιάζεται δ’ ὁμοσπόροισ ἐπιρροαῖσιν αἱμάτων μέλασ Ἄρησ, ὅποι δίκαν προβαίνων πάχνᾳ κουροβόρῳ παρέξει. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 2 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. devouring children

Similar forms

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

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