Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κυνοσπάρακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνοσπάρακτος κυνοσπάρακτον

Structure: κυνοσπαρακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spara/ssw

Sense

  1. torn by dogs

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὲ σῷ ποδαγὸσ ἑσπόμην πόσει πεδίον ἐπ’ ἄκρον, ἔνθ’ ἔκειτο νηλεὲσ κυνοσπάρακτον σῶμα Πολυνείκουσ ἔτι· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. torn by dogs

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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