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λινόδετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λινόδετος λινόδετον

Structure: λινοδετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/w

Sense

  1. bound with flaxen cords, tied

Examples

  • οὗ ναῦσ χαλινοῖσ λινοδέτοισ ὁρμεῖ σέθεν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 5:31)
  • μή νυν περὶ σαυτὸν εἶλλε τὴν γνώμην ἀεί, ἀλλ’ ἀποχάλα τὴν φροντίδ’ ἐσ τὸν ἀέρα λινόδετον ὥσπερ μηλολόνθην τοῦ ποδόσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:34)

Synonyms

  1. bound with flaxen cords

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

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