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ναύφρακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναύφρακτος

Structure: ναυφρακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fra/ssw

Sense

  1. ship-fenced

Examples

  • ὁρᾶθ’ ὅσον στράτευμα ναύφρακτον τόδε, χαλκέων θ’ ὅπλων ἄνακτεσ Ἑλλήνων ὅσοι, οἷσ νόστοσ οὐκ ἔστ’ Ἰλίου πύργουσ ἔπι, εἰ μή σε θύσω, μάντισ ὡσ Κάλχασ λέγει, οὐδ’ ἔστι Τροίασ ἐξελεῖν κλεινὸν βάθρον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 4:5)
  • τραπέντα ναύφρακτον ἐρεῖσ ὅμιλον; (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 53)

Synonyms

  1. ship-fenced

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

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