Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

μεσαιπόλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσαιπόλιος μεσαιπόλιον

Structure: μεσαιπολι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for mesopo/lios

Sense

  1. half-gray, grizzled, middle-aged

Examples

  • καὶ αὐτὸν οἱ Κελτοὶ περιιόντα τὰ ἔθνη πρεσβύτην ὁρῶντεσ, εἶτα νέον, εἶτα μεσαιπόλιον, καὶ συνεχῶσ ἕτερον ἐξ ἑτέρου, θαυμάζοντεσ ἐδόκουν θειοτέρασ φύσεωσ λαχεῖν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 1:8)

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

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