Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μυριόκρανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυριόκρανος μυριόκρανον

Structure: μυριοκραν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. many-headed

Examples

  • τάν τε μυριόκρανον πολύφονον κύνα Λέρνασ ὕδραν ἐξεπύρωσεν, βέλεσί τ’ ἀμφέβαλ’ <ἰόν>, τὸν τρισώματον οἷσιν ἔ‐ κτα βοτῆρ’ Ἐρυθείασ. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, ephymnion 31)

Synonyms

  1. many-headed

Similar forms

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

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