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λαχνόγυιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαχνόγυιος λαχνόγυιον

Structure: λαχνογυι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gui=on

Sense

  1. with shaggy limbs

Examples

  • ὦ μάκαρ Ἀρκαδίᾳ ποτὲ παρθένε Καλλιστοῖ, Διὸσ ἃ λεχέων ἐπέβασ τετραβάμοσι γυίοισ, ὡσ πολὺ ματρὸσ ἐμᾶσ ἔλαχεσ πλέον, ἁ μορφᾷ θηρῶν λαχνογυίων ‐ ὄμματι λάβρῷ σχῆμα λεαίνησ ‐ ἐξαλλάξασ’ ἄχθεα λύπησ· (Euripides, Helen, episode, lyric 2:1)

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

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