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νιφόβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νιφόβολος νιφόβολον

Structure: νιφοβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ba/llw

Sense

  1. snow-stricken, snowclad

Examples

  • νιφόβολα πεδία πολύπορά τ’ ἤλυθον ἀλαλάν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics7)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ κορυφῆσ πρὸσ ἄρκτον μὲν ἀφορᾶται ὅ τε Παρνασσὸσ καὶ ὁ Ἑλικών, ὄρη ὑψηλὰ καὶ νιφόβολα, καὶ ὁ Κρισαῖοσ κόλποσ ὑποπεπτωκὼσ ἀμφοτέροισ, περιεχόμενοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ Φωκίδοσ καὶ τῆσ Βοιωτίασ καὶ τῆσ Μεγαρίδοσ καὶ τῆσ ἀντιπόρθμου τῇ Φωκίδι Κορινθίασ καὶ Σικυωνίασ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 34:17)

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

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