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νηλεόποινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηλεόποινος νηλεόποινον

Structure: νηλεοποιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poinh/

Sense

  1. punishing without pity, ruthlessly punishing

Examples

  • καὶ Μοίρασ καὶ Κῆρασ ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνουσ, Κλωθώ τε Λάχεσίν τε καὶ Ἄτροπον, αἵτε βροτοῖσι γεινομένοισι διδοῦσιν ἔχειν ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε, αἵτ’ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε παραιβασίασ ἐφέπουσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 25:3)

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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