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λεύσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεύσιμος λεύσιμον

Structure: λευσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: leu/w

Sense

  1. stoning, by stoning, that will end in stoning

Examples

  • κἄνπερ λάβητε, δέσμιον πορεύσατε δεῦρ’ αὐτόν, ὡσ ἂν λευσίμου δίκησ τυχὼν θάνῃ, πικρὰν βάκχευσιν ἐν Θήβαισ ἰδών. (Euripides, episode 16:2)
  • στάσισ δ’ ἀκόρετοσ γένει κατολολυξάτω θύματοσ λευσίμου. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 54)

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

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