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ναύστολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναύστολος ναύστολον

Structure: ναυστολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ste/llw

Sense

  1. crossing the water

Examples

  • διὰ μέσου γὰρ αἰθέροσ τέμνων κέλευθον πόδα τίθημ’ ὑπόπτερον Περσεὺσ πρὸσ Ἄργοσ ναυστολῶν τὸ Γοργόνοσ κάρα κομίζων. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, iambics2)
  • ὁ ναυστολῶν γάρ εἰμ’ ἐγὼ τὰσ συμφοράσ, οὗτοσ δὲ συμπλεῖ τῶν ἐμῶν μόχθων χάριν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 4:10)
  • καὶ δάμαρτα τὴν κακίστην ναυστολῶν ἐλήλυθεν; (Euripides, episode, trochees15)

Synonyms

  1. crossing the water

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

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