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μυδροκτύπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυδροκτύπος μυδροκτύπον

Structure: μυδροκτυπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. forging red-hot iron, of a smith smiting iron

Examples

  • ὁ δ’ ἀγριωπὸν ὄμμα Γοργόνοσ στρέφων, ὡσ ἐντὸσ ἔστη παῖσ λυγροῦ τοξεύματοσ, μυδροκτύπον μίμημ’, ὑπὲρ κάρα βαλὼν ξύλον καθῆκε παιδὸσ ἐσ ξανθὸν κάρα, ἔρρηξε δ’ ὀστᾶ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 3:9)

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

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