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λαχνόγυιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: lachnoguios

Principal Part: λαχνόγυιος λαχνόγυιον

Structure: λαχνογυι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: γυῖον

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)

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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