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νερτεροδρόμος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νερτεροδρόμος νερτεροδρόμου

Structure: νερτεροδρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the courier of the dead

Examples

  • καί τινασ ἐπὶ τούτῳ πρεσβευτὰσ τῶν ἑταίρων ἐχειροτόνησεν, νεκραγγέλουσ καὶ νερτεροδρόμουσ προσαγορεύσασ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 21:4)

Synonyms

  1. the courier of the dead

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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