Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

μελάνυδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελάνυδρος μελάνυδρον

Structure: μελανυδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with black water, which looks black

Examples

  • Ἔστε μὲν αὐτὸσ ἔπινον ἀπὸ κρήνησ μελανύδρου, ἡδύ τέ μοί τι δόκει καὶ καλὸν εἶμεν ὕδωρ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389537)
  • καί τ’ ἀγεληδὸν ἰάσιν ἀπὸ κρήνησ μελανύδρου λάψοντεσ γλώσσῃσιν ἀραιῇσιν μέλαν ὕδωρ ἄκρον ἐρευγόμενοι φόνον αἵματοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 13:4)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτ’ ἀνὴρ ὀχετηγὸσ ἀπὸ κρήνησ μελανύδρου ἂμ φυτὰ καὶ κήπουσ ὕδατι ῥόον ἡγεμονεύῃ χερσὶ μάκελλαν ἔχων, ἀμάρησ ἐξ ἔχματα βάλλων· (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 20:13)

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

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